Religion, Politics and Memory: a study of Liberation Theology in Historical Protestantism in Londrina-PR at the time of the military dictatorship (1964-1985)

Abstract

This article analyzes the presence of liberation theology among sectors of historical Protestantism in Londrina during the military dictatorship, which took place in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. Being a religious movement that established critical of the capitalist system and the process of historical development in Latin America, in leading sectors of the Catholic Church on the continent, such movement not stopped only to Catholicism, also reaching segments of historical Protestantism, in which case the research was performed with religious belonging to the Anglican and Independent Presbyterian Church. Through discursive analysis of protestant leaders who lived in Londrina this period, the study addressed the effect produced by a religious movement left with the strong political surveillance imposed by the military at that time in Brazilian history.

Keywords

• Religião e política
• teologia da libertação
• ditadura militar (1964-1985)
• protestantismo histórico
• Londrina