O papel das Ordens Leigas na configuração urbana da cidade do Rio de Janeiro: 1763-1840

Abstract

The process of urban mesh formation of Rio de Janeiro city, among others was involved by the religious feeling of its inhabitants, who in many cases congregated themselves in religious associations that had exerted an important social, economic and political paper in Carioca´s society in the period of 1763 to 1840. This study has as objective to point the Laypeople Orders - Third Orders and Brotherhoods - that in the exercise of its territoriality had blunted as one of the agents of formation of the downtown urban mesh out of the limits established until the end of XVIII century. For in such a way, one searched to unmask the strategical actions of these associations that with its devotional practices as processions, parties and pilgrimages, would have appropriated of downtown territory. Equally it was investigated if from this occupation were executed improvements at the region, either on the part of the administration of the city, either on the part of its proper integrants. It had been proceeded analyses from the architecture of the churches of the Third Orders and Brotherhoods in the region in order to verify which were the influences of the religious feeling and ecclesiastical disposals in the project of these units and to identify in the typology of the symbolic forms of the construction the presence or not of standardization between them.