A juventude universitária católica e o processo de conscientização e de construção de uma consciência história entre os jovens católicos no Brasil na decáda de 1960

Abstract

This thesis seeks to analyze the process of awareness and construction of a historical consciousness among the militants of the Catholic University Youth in Brazil in the 1960s. Among some hypotheses for the development of this process, the contact with the thinking of French Catholic intellectuals, among them Emmanuel Mounier and his Personalism, and the development of a progressivism within Catholicism, especially among the Northeastern episcopate, with D. Hélder Câmara. This work is based on a bibliographic survey, being a qualitative research. The concept of analysis used is the organic intellectual, proposed by Antônio Gramsci. The concept of education in this work is broader, directed towards the formation of the human person. The Jucists sought to raise awareness among the popular classes through education, seeking to train them to be able to act in society in order to fight for their basic rights and against the exploitation of the elites. The theme has social relevance for studying and presenting how this process of awareness took place among young Catholics, making them seek a human formation and worry about transmitting it to the poorer classes through a popular education.