“Conflicts and riots due to politics in religious matters in the 1st Republic in Portugal (1910-1917)” is the theme of the next session of the Casa da Cidadania Conferences, scheduled for October 15, at 16:00 pm, in the Real Compromisso Building, in Ferragudo .
Historian David Luna de Carvalho will be the guest speaker.
The history of Democracy, which began with the Liberal Revolution of 1820 and the Constitution of 1822, which now celebrates its bicentennial, began, in its letter, by making all Portuguese people equal before the law, a fundamental point for the institutionalization of citizenship. However, although the “free communication of thoughts” was alluded to, there was no freedom of thought, not even religious freedom.
The Portuguese Constitutional Monarchic State was a Confessional State and to be Portuguese was to be Catholic. In addition to intending to extinguish the monarchical institution, based on mere family succession, the 1st Republic also had the fundamental objective of establishing freedom of thought and religious freedom, thus deepening democracy and citizenship.
Due to the adverse reactions that this plan caused, it has been interpreted as the reason for the short duration of the 1st Republic, without, however, having quantified, serialized, mapped and related the whole series of conflicts that existed with political-religious pretexts.
David Luna de Carvalho states that, «having done so, we present these results, considering the spaces of the Continent and the Archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. At the last moment, we carried out a comparative analysis between this universe of observation and that of the Algarve».
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