Igreja Reformada Potiguara (1625 1692): a primeira igreja protestante do Brasil

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to analyze, through the History of Mentalities, as aspects of the reformed mentality seventeen century, were absorbed by Potiguara Nation who joined the Dutch in Colonial Brazil, in order to say that these Indians were the first Protestant church in Brazil, the Reformed Church Potiguara. This work discusses how Protestantism was an essential element for the strengthening of relations between Dutch and potiguaras, arguing that the idea of the Universal Church, plus the specific conditions of Dutch Brazil put both under conditions of greater equality and greater indigenous participation in the administration of colony. It also demonstrates that the very Potiguara helped establish Protestantism in Colonial Northeast, evangelized other tribes, were a historian, the first Protestant martyr of Brazil, and even ordered a pastor and his church survived longer than Dutch Brazil.