HISTORY OF THE CHURCH: RELIGIOUS INTEREST X POLITICAL INTEREST

Abstract

We are in a period where religion and politics are in different fields. I make a presentation of the historicization process of the church since its advent (1st century) until the period of the crusades, showing how important the Catholic Church was for the formation of humanity and how its presence is continuous in the world political scenario, especially in Europe. The object of this study is to analyze the history of the Church in a panoramic view between Church and State. The secularization of the State's juridical-political preparation, in addition to once again repeating the autonomy and supremacy of law in relation to other forms of normative orders, would reduce the pretension of religious groups to infuse their norms to the whole of society. Even though the country's constitution and laws solidly affirm the separation between the political and religious fields, the interchange and multiple consequences between these two vehements of social life are very present. The relations between religion and politics, in Brazil, exceed different periods and contexts, affecting consecutive readaptations and transformations and dialoguing closely with social, political and economic categories. Keywords: Church; Religion; Policy.