Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the discourses of both the Church and the State, noting similarities between them in the construction of Brazilian fascism (1937 - 1945) known as “Estado Novo”. The 1930s in Brazil emerged with an Europe presented as the image of a new El Dorado, a kind of lost Eden. The discourse production of this decade polarized two extremities: one considering Europe as the prototype of order and modernity, in contrast to the image of the second one: a transgressive Europe, contaminated by the “germ” of the “anarchic” ideology and communism, represented by Russia, the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. The authoritarian ideology traveled across the Atlantic and arrived in Brazil, reproducing the new Nazi and fascist paradigms present in Europe. A “community of meaning”, grouping Brazilian intellectuals, received these new models very well. Their fundamentals (racism, authoritarianism and nationalism) were essential to the ideal of order versus disorder spread through the Brazilian society. The Church encompassed this discourse. Thus, catechetical discourses joined the political discourses.
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