Abstract:
This paper aimed to investigate propositions in defense of religious tolerance in inquisitorial sources produced under the Enlightened Reformism in luso-brazilian world, having as hypothesis that the institutional reforms touching the Inquisition, the Catholic Church and regular and secular clergy have created, indirectly, conditions for the defense of religious tolerance were widespread more widely. We focus our analysis between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first decade of the nineteenth and in the "heretic propositions" present in the speeches of the Libertines, comparing them with debates and present conditions in the context of broad institutional changes in Portugal and its colonies. We seek thus to map the possible similarities between religious conceptions that refer to a popular religion and other matrix of Enlightenment conceptions of tolerance, and to what extent they were influenced by the context and discourse of modernization by the Portuguese monarchy.
Keywords:
Religious Tolerance; Inquisition; Enlightenment