Pensamento E Acção De Benjamim Videira Pires Em Religião E Pátria = 宗教與袓國 雜誌所見潘日明的思想與活動
The article analyzes the thought and action of Benjamim António Videira Pires, SJ, based on his contribution to the Portuguese journal in the East *Religião e Pátria* (R&P), interpreting this participation as an articulated expression between Catholic faith and the Lusitanian identity project. The a...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Articles |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2016
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40053/2280 |
| Summary: | The article analyzes the thought and action of Benjamim António Videira Pires, SJ, based on his contribution to the Portuguese journal in the East *Religião e Pátria* (R&P), interpreting this participation as an articulated expression between Catholic faith and the Lusitanian identity project. The authors argue that, between 1955 and 1968—the period during which BVP assumed editorial and directorial duties—the journal functioned as a platform for historical research, educational intervention, and literary diffusion, enabling him to consolidate a public narrative about the Portuguese in the East and the conditions for propagating the Gospel message. Methodologically, the study proceeds with a contextual and documentary reading of R&P, reconnecting the author’s activities to the journal’s institutional trajectory, its circulation within the Lusitanian diaspora (with emphasis on Macau and also Hong Kong), and the political and cultural landmarks that marked the territory in the twentieth century. As results, the authors highlight the internal coherence of BVP’s program: the articulation between pedagogical work and intellectual production; the recourse to archives, books, and historical sites as empirical basis; and the defense of a cultural Lusitanity anchored in religious values. It concludes that BVP’s activities in R&P constitute a paradigmatic case of cultural mediation in the East, in which religion and homeland mutually reinforce each other through the printed word. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |