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Este artigo pretende descrever uma das iniciativas de maior alcance pastoral e cultural promovidas pela Sociedade Missionária da Boa Nova em Portugal: a Semana Nacional de Estudos Missionários. O mesmo intenta, também, averiguar os objectivos e impacte desta iniciativa, tornada anual e repetida quinze vezes ao longo de dezassete anos. A partir de uma experiência auto-formativa levada a cabo por um grupo de estudantes do Seminário Maior de Cucujães, os missionários seculares portugueses foram tecendo uma rede internacional de contactos dedicada ao estudo e problematização do trabalho missionário: entre outros, intervieram nessas jornadas teólogos e missionólogos envolvidos nos trabalhos do II Concílio Vaticano; bispos e sacerdotes das dioceses africanas e sul-americanas; laicado da ACP e do movimento Graal. Na década de 70, as “semanas” assumiram-se como palco de reflexão também aberta à restante sociedade, indelevelmente marcada pelo contexto de ruptura entre o marcelismo e o processo de democratização do país, tendo-se tornado um espaço privilegiado de acompanhamento e abertura a importantes mudanças sociais ocorridas ao longo de quase duas décadas.
This working paper intends to describe one of the most successful pastoral and cultural events promoted by the Sociedade Missionária da Boa Nova in Portugal: the National Week for Missionary Studies. It also probes through the goals and impact made by this annual iniciative, which generated fifteen editions in seventeen years. The experience had its precedent in a self-educating activity led by a group of students from Seminário Maior de Cucujães, who, since then, created an international network of contacts with intellectuals and scholars devoted to missionary studies: among others, the different editions of the National Week had the presence of theologians and missiologists participating in the II Vatican Council, bishops and priests from african and south-american dioceses, and laymen from de Portuguese Catholic Action and the Graal Movement. In the nineteen seventies, the National Weeks broadened the spectrum of discussion, engaging other sectors of portuguese society, in a period that was characterized by the erosion of the Marcelismo and the institution of a democratic regime in the country. The National Weeks were, therefore, the space for broad ecclesiastical participation and the discussion of social change.
This working paper intends to describe one of the most successful pastoral and cultural events promoted by the Sociedade Missionária da Boa Nova in Portugal: the National Week for Missionary Studies. It also probes through the goals and impact made by this annual iniciative, which generated fifteen editions in seventeen years. The experience had its precedent in a self-educating activity led by a group of students from Seminário Maior de Cucujães, who, since then, created an international network of contacts with intellectuals and scholars devoted to missionary studies: among others, the different editions of the National Week had the presence of theologians and missiologists participating in the II Vatican Council, bishops and priests from african and south-american dioceses, and laymen from de Portuguese Catholic Action and the Graal Movement. In the nineteen seventies, the National Weeks broadened the spectrum of discussion, engaging other sectors of portuguese society, in a period that was characterized by the erosion of the Marcelismo and the institution of a democratic regime in the country. The National Weeks were, therefore, the space for broad ecclesiastical participation and the discussion of social change.
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Semanas Nacionais de Estudos Missionários 1962-1978
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VICENTE, Ana Cláudia – As Semanas Nacionais de Estudos Missionários (1962-1978). Lusitania Sacra. Lisboa. ISSN 0076-1508. 2ª S. 19-20 (2007-2008) 307-328
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Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa - Universidade Católica Portuguesa