L’éducation nationale au Brésil et les immigrants religieux européens
National education in Brazil and European religious immigrants

Summary/Abstract: The late Brazilian Republic is the result of a military operation, without popular participation, and has been configured as an adjustment to the international process of modernization of national states and the economy. The Catholic Church, constitutive of the State during the Colonial period and the Empire, had to leave the center of state power giving way to a state that declared itself secular. By redefining its place in national politics, it has become more professional, has been able to promote a strong immigration of its cadres, has expanded and reorganized itself, ensuring a privileged place in the official educational system. This article examines the immigration and settlement of Catholic congregations in the country, whose mission is school education. It is part of a wider study to understand the results of Catholic school education in the formation of public spirit and national republican identity, insofar as such education, promoted by European immigrant religious, mainly Italian and French, counted with the European identity of the teaching body.

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