Te deum: a construção da ideia de deidade do imperador na Paraíba de 1840-1860

Abstract

The dissertation is entitled TE DEUM: The Construction of the idea of the Emperor's Deity in Paraíba from 1840-1860 and is related to the themes of the line of research adopted, as it addresses “everyday political practices, political cultures or institutional policies; circulation of ideas, representations, constitution of knowledge and places of power; religious practices and imaginaries”. Therefore, the work is from the perspective of understanding the attempt to construct the phenomenon of political/religious imagination between 1840 and 1860, as a foundation for the creation of a deified moral authority of the person of Emperor D. Pedro II, in the administrative center of the province of Parahyba. We used as a base source the speeches of the Presidents of the Province of Parahyba do Norte in the given time frame, which is in the Documentation Center of the University of Chicago and periodicals that disseminated these ideas. The objective is to deepen knowledge involving studies on social imagery and symbolism in the administrative capital of the province of Parahyba do Norte, in the mid-19th century. The research aims to demonstrate the intentions of political power in the Capital of the province of Paraibana between 1840-60, to create an imaginary atmosphere around the figure of the emperor and justify, based on the social phenomenon of the deification of Power, the legitimacy of existing social class privileges. in the society studied. How can the phenomenon of social imaginary in a given society, at a specific time, interfere with the actions of certain social groups? How was a deifying political imaginary constructed over historical time by the political and social agents involved in the history of nineteenth-century Paraíba? In this work we try to answer these questions and clarify the place and importance of the imaginary as a category of study for understanding the uses that the concept of deification of power generated in the society studied.