Evangelizing, educating and modernizing:the Samuel Graham and Granbery institutes and the protestant experience in Goiás (1943-1963)

Abstract:

This article seeks to analyze the beginnings of Protestant education in Goiás, in particular, the process of creation of the Samuel Graham Institute in Jataí (1942), a Presbyterian initiative, and the Granbery Institute in Pires do Rio (1943), of Methodist affiliation. These are two strands of missionary Protestant ism that settled in Brazil from the mid-nineteenth century. The analysis of the two institutes seeks to understand the historical context in which they were created, their approximations and singularities and the relationship of each with the experiences processed at the national level, and thus to think about the purposes, the social actor sand the intersections between religion and education, tradition and modernity, public and private, that contributed to the creation of these confessional schools.

Keywords:
history of education; protestant education; school institutions; Goiás