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

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Eliézer Cardoso de Oliveira
Eduardo Gusmão de Quadros

Abstract

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.

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OLIVEIRA, Eliézer Cardoso de; QUADROS, Eduardo Gusmão de. “Brave men in cassocks”: bravery and violence use by clergy in Goiás. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 13, n. 40, p. 2168–2193, 2015. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2015v13n40p2168. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2015v13n40p2168. Acesso em: 25 oct. 2025.
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Eliézer Cardoso de Oliveira, Universidade Estadual de Goiás

Undergraduate and master's degree in History , PhD in Sociology . Professor of the course of history and the Masters in Cultural Expressions Territories and the Cerrado of the State University of Goiás. He is currently enrolled in post- doctoral training in PhD in Religion Sciences, PUC- GO, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Eduardo Gusmão de Quadros

Eduardo Gusmão de Quadros, Pontifícia Universidade Católica

Bachelor's at History from Universidade Católica de Salvador (1992), bachelor's at bachelor's degree in theology from Instituto de Educaçao Teologica da Bahia (1996), master's at Theology from Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (1998) and doctorate at History from Universidade de Brasília (2005). Has experience in History, focusing on History, acting on the following subjects: history, Goiás, religion.