“Brave men in cassocks”: bravery and violence use by clergy in Goiás

• Main Authors: Eliézer Cardoso de Oliveira, Eduardo Gusmão de Quadros
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais 2015-12-01
• Series: Horizonte
• Subjects: Ética da Valentia, Catolicismo e Violência, Clérigos, História de Goiás
• Online Access: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/9524

<p>This article analyzes clerics who identified with the ethics of bravery. Bravery is an evaluative field based on the public display of courage and skill in the management of violence. In this sense, it was observed that among the Catholic clergy, a minority contingent, but heuristically representative, held typical actions of brave people, like the courage to kill another human being, or to use violence to solve everyday conflicts. The text is divided into three parts: the first, called "Catholic Church and violence," says, from the Weberian sociology, the strained relations between religion and violence. In the second, "the courage and the clerics" looking conceptualize courage and demonstrate their applicability to members of the clergy from historical examples. Finally, the topic called "brave priests in Goiás" studies the cases of priests in the context of Goiás history, before 1930, which approached the bravery of ethics, taking on a personality that clashes with the socially expected behavior for this category.</p>