Diversidade religiosa, liberdades e locais de culto: uma análise sobre as permissões religiosas durante o período holandês (1630-1654)

Abstract

This present paper attends the religious environment during the dutch occupation in Brazil (1630 - 1654), as also as the coexistence between catholics, protestants, jews, africans and indigenous enslaved, in addition to present how the public forces in Recife managed the tension about the occupation of religious spaces in dispute, like the churches and the synagogues, regulating on what is permitted and what is forbidden to do in terms of religion. Lastly, it discusses the holy war fought between portugueses and flemishes with the aim of showing which of the two aspects of Christianity - Catholic and Protestant - had God's help during the battles, attesting which of the religions was the true one and which was an instrument of lies. For such, it was developed a bibliographic analysis from texts of classical historians and chroniclers who dealt with the topic of the Dutch occupation in Brazil, like Antônio Gonsalves de Mello, Evaldo Cabral de Mello, Ronaldo Vainfas, Frans Leonard Schalkwijk, Roberto Chacon de Albuquerque, Gaspar Barléu, Peter Hansen Hajstrup and Frei Manuel Calado.