A IDENTIDADE ÉTNICO-RELIGIOSA DA COMUNIDADE LUTERANA DE IMBITUVA-PR E O ESTADO NOVO

Abstract

This research aims to weave a historiographic study about the process of construction of Ressurreição Evangelical Lutheran Community, located in the city of Imbituva, in South-Central Paraná state. Between the tensioned forces of aggregation and dispersion, this text has as objective to identify the ethnic elements (belonging to the "Volga germans" immigrants and their respective descendants) and religious (from lutheran prothestantism) and to investigate the relations of these elements with the impact of political practices on the context of Getúlio Vargas government in Brazil, especially during the period of "New State" (from 1937 to 1945) that contributed to the construction of the identity of the Lutheran Community of Imbituva-PR. The migration movement and the establishment of this ethnic and ecclesiastical group produced tensions and conflicts in the receiver society in order to cause significant changes, as resistences, creation of borders, otherness, assimilation, hybridization, in the life of the own immigrants on this new context. Ethnicity and religiosity configure categories of analysis relevant to the understanding of aspects concerning to the historicity of identitary settings in this social group.