EVANGELIZATION, POLITICS AND CELEBRATIONS IN ADVENTIST MAGAZINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CIVIL-MILITARY DICTATORSHIP, 1972-1978.
Keywords: Adventist Education, Adventist Magazine. Civil-Military Dictatorship, SDA.
Adventist education becomes evangelism's potential starting in 1872, with the founding of the first college in Battle Creek, Michigan. Taken as a source for the expansion of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA), it received attention, investment and took root in other territories besides the United States of America (USA). In Brazil, the first school appeared on June 1, 1896, in Curitiba, Paraná. Since then, it has tried to consolidate itself by expanding its tentacles throughout the different Brazilian regions. In the scope of this research, the year 1972 is representative because of numerous celebrations, among them: the fiftieth anniversary of the Week of Modern Art, the celebrations about the sesquicentennial of the Independence of Brazil associated with the strengthening of the civil-military dictatorship, the patriotic and national civic, in particular, the centenary of Adventist education. While the year 1978 is marked by the commemorations of Adventist World Education by deliberation of the Adventist General Conference and the Adventist Educational Teaching Network. In this period of time, Revista Adventista, a periodical created in January 1906, is characterized as an important instrument of communication and of evangelical, educational and political action for the insertion, expansion and consolidation of (SDA). Thus, it is essential to understand how the Institution put into action the project of evangelization, education and politics in the years in which the civil-military coalition was in charge of the nation, particularly between the years 1972 to 1978. Therefore, the The dissertation tries to analyze, guided by the commemorations of the centenary of Adventist education and the celebrations of the world year of education, how, through the Adventist Magazine, the Church expanded evangelization, participated in civic, religious and educational celebrations and took a political position in relation to the order policy imposed in that historical present.