Pela caravana da fraternidade: unificação do movimento espírita nas memórias do educador Leopoldo Machado

Abstract

Understand the importance of Leopoldo Machado educator in the unification of the Brazilian spiritualist movement project, proposed in the Covenant Golden using your travel journal transformed in The Fellowship of the Caravan is the goal of this thesis. For this purpose, the files were used that make up the family's collection and from school, their published books and journals in which he wrote, because these sources provide elements that make it possible to investigate how organized a school in Nova Iguaçu, from the decade 1930, as well as its membership in the unification of spiritualist community project. Organized into three chapters, the dissertation takes as its starting point the posthumous tributes to the educator to highlight the importance it played in the city that welcomed him at the beginning of his career in education, and which he left in a caravan in 1950. The second chapter focuses on the journey itself, its objectives, its motivations, the companions of the caravan and the main activities developed in the various cities visited. In the last chapter, the interpretation lies in the unfolding of the trip, trying to interpret the publication of the diary, the epistolary impressions and debate in the press as part of building strategies of a given memory on distribution and unification of the spiritual movement in Brazil. The study therefore aims to contribute to the history of education in the Baixada Fluminense, the story of the spirit education and life story of a spiritualist educator.