Abstract: In Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, there is a coexistence between politics and religion both in public and private spaces, a coexistence between religious and secular discourses. This coexistence shows that the idea of a secular space as a field of reference for all citizens is still being formed and that the confessional neutrality of the State and social secularization have specific measures and rhythms. It is true that in this period, in social and institutional life, the permanence of religious bonds, specially Catholicism, is present with great force, but also changes in the forms of individual and collective consciousness in the face of politics. We could think of a process where secularization, secularism and religion coexisted in a tense and contradictory process. It was in the face.....
Keywords: Brazil , Intellectuals, Alceu Amoroso Lima, Jackson de Figueiredo, Jacques Maritain , Christian Democracy..
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