The Pastoral do Menor in the Brazilian redemocratization

building the ideal of children and adolescents rights

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22562/2025.62.17

Keywords:

Pastoral do Menor, Redemocratization, Children´s Right

Abstract

The text investigates the discursive interrelations between the Pastoral do Menor and the rights of children and adolescents in the period of Brazilian redemocratization. In this context of the downfall of minorism the Pastoral was a protagonist in the mobilization of the social assistance network aimed at “street” boys and girls in large Brazilian cities. The moment experienced by Catholicism enabled a peculiar biblical-theological reading of the minor, fundamental to reach audiences not sensitized by other sources of discourse. Based on Michel Foucault's genealogical coordinates, the Pastoral do Menor is investigated as part of a social device that created networks with the officiality progressive Catholicism to build the rights of children and adolescents, expressed in the Federal Constitution (1988) and in the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente (1990). The documentation is made up of booklets that comprised the training of the pastoral agents.

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Camila Serafim Daminelli, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense

Doutora em História. Professora da Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense.

Ismael Gonçalves Alves, Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense

Doutor em História. Professor da Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense.

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Published

2025-06-24

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 62 (2025): Histórias e Memórias outras

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