As comemorações dos 500 anos da Reforma Protestante no portal da Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana no Brasil - IECLB (2017)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze how memory was worked on in the festivities and celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017, on the portal of the Evangelical Church of Lutheran Confession of Brazil (IECLB). The method used for the work was based on bibliographical research about the origin of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century and on the analysis of the Lutheran Church website, as the main source. The theoretical references focused on the study of the concepts of celebration, celebration and memory. We can conclude that the interest in the different forms of celebrations was in the idea of expanding Protestant influence in the present day, a situation that points, however, to overcoming the intolerance that reigned in the past, by promoting and using the jubilee as a factor of rapprochement with the Catholics.