Freemasonry and Protestantism in Late 19th Century Amazonia

This work is based on observations and data collected from bibliographical and documentary analyses, such as magazines and newspapers from the 19th century, in order to understand how the process of estrangement between the Protestant Church and Freemasonry took place in the province of Grão-Pará, given that in the 19th century there was a Masonic-Protestant alliance strengthened by the liberal logic that subsidised the strengthening of Protestantism in the region and symbolically decapitalised the Catholic Church, generating a series of conflicts, including the religious issue responsible for the imprisonment of two important leaders of national Catholicism, the Bishop of Olinda and the Bishop of Grão-Pará; the theme of this book is directly linked to the success experienced by Freemasonry in the 19th century in the province of Grão-Pará, which was able to help the Masonic Order implement its liberal proposal. The Catholic Church, as the holder of religious capital, tried in many ways to decapitalise the Masonic order, weakening it through speeches in newspapers and magazines, in an attempt to discredit Masonic interests in Brazil, causing the Masonic order to be demonised and debased.