“Ardendo no fogo de tantos vícios”: modelos e condutas morais na Bahia do século XVIII

Abstract

The process of disciplining found vigour in Bahia from the 18th century onwards, as a result of various actions to make it a religious metropolis in the Portuguese Atlantic. Among these, figured the production of moral discourses that significantly mobilized the agents and institutions of the Catholic Church in the metropolis and in the colony. The dissertation intends to analyze some of these discourses in significant dialogue with the conduct of different individuals and groups who lived in the Archbishopric. It also intends to investigate the very behaviors of Christianity that emerge in a multi-ethnic and hierarchical colonial society where the experience of faith does not always match the disciplinary determinations.