Intelectuais católicos: concepções integristas na revista Hora Presente e o conservadorismo católico no Brasil

Abstract

The present work sought to analyze the role of Catholic intellectuals in the period after the Second Vatican Council. The research is constituted as a case study of the integristas connected to the magazine Hora Presente, published between the years of 1968 and 1978. The main objective is to understand the relations established by the catholic intellectuals linked to fundamentalist thinking with the other catholic groups and the Brazilian State o during this period of repression and deprivation of the freedoms experienced by the Brazilian intelligentsia. The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) convened in 1961 by Pope John XXIII (1958-1963) sought to establish a direction for the Church in search of a more open dialogue with modernity theological plurality and tolerance of other religious denominations. Undoubtedly, this Council generated discomfort in religious segments of more conservative positions, such as the traditionalists and fundamentalists who did not share the conciliar proposals that sought to open the Church to the modern world. Our object of study is, therefore, constituted by the conservative Catholic intellectuals of the period after the Second Vatican Council. When analyzing the publications of Hora Presente Journal, we intend to understand fundamentalist phenomenology as a conservative Catholic movement that generates social conflicts and an important part in the normative symbolic struggle of Catholicism in Brazil. The theoretical framework used in the research is inserted in the sociology of religion approach in interface with the sociology of the intellectuals, proposing, as mentioned, an analysis of the position of the Catholic intellectuals, in the post-conciliar period. It is important to underline that our privileged source is the Hora Presente Journal. The research is fundamentally qualitative, and is divided into three moments, starting from a historical analysis of the emergence of the fundamentalist catholic current contextualizing it within the process of secularization, in a second moment we present a documentary analysis from the discourses of the fundamentalist intellectual production and in a third moment we analyze the production of Catholic intellectuals in the contemporary world, seeking the discontinuities and permanences in relation to the conflicts discussed previously, to highlight the contemporary events led by the Catholic Church in recent decades.