Espiritualidade do trabalho: a vinda dos salesianos para o Nordeste brasileiro, no projeto de romanização.

Abstract

This research set out to understand the context of the arrival of the Salesians in Brazil at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century and the position of the Salesians at the end of the power of priests, based on sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concept of symbolic power, as well as to understand the impact of the work of the Salesian Congregation on its arrival in the north-east of Brazil and on the professionalization of young Pernambucans in the city of Recife between 1882 and 1920. It also situates the transition from the 19th to the 20th century, which corresponds to the description of the background to the arrival of the Salesians. It analyzed the Salesians as agents of the repositioning of the new moment in the Church: the end of the power of priests and the beginning of Romanization, thinking about this issue from the point of view of a "spirituality of work". The research was qualitative and documental, in which the bibliography was used as an object of analysis, from primary sources such as newspapers, printed material published in the period studied, developed on the basis of elaborate material, consisting mainly of books and scientific articles, of a qualitative nature based on the nature of the data collected, the extent of the sample, the research instruments and the theoretical assumptions that guided the investigation.