A colonia menonita em Curuguaty no Paraguay: a persistência étnica e religiosa dos menonitas

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Benites, Ezoil Paniagua
• Orientador(a): Pereira, João Baptista Borges
• Banca de defesa: Campos, Leonildo Silveira , Ferreira, Valdinei Aparecido
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Ciências da Religião
• Departamento: Centro de Educação, Filosofia e Teologia (CEFT)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: etnicidade; Menonita; persistência; religião
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS
• Link de acesso: http://dspace.mackenzie.br/handle/10899/25735

The present research is part of an anthropologist study aiming to understand how a Protestant group, arising from the Religious Reform of XVI century, the Mennon-ites, still keeping their behavior almost unchanged; even after around 500 years past. The Mennonites living in many Paraguayan colonies (even the ones who living in Brazilian colonies) still being a very unknown group for the Brazilian people. The main aim of this research is to understand how this ethnic group persists, what are the factors that help them to remain living in the same way of life, isolated from the world both geographically and existentially. The methodology used firstly, was a bibliographic research to establish the characteristics that build and format the group in the period named Protestant Reformation of sixteenth century; and second-ly a field research, aiming to analyze the ties that are related to the past. This re-search shows that the Mennonites still keeping their relation with the past un-changed. Although they have the right of use the Germany language as an official idiom guaranteed by the law 514 of 1933; and they have their own government in-side the colony; the persistence occurs mainly because the ethnic border is very well established.