A contribuição de Michel de Certeau à História das ideias religiosas.

Abstract

This article presents a historiographical alternative formulated by Michel de Certeau to the history of religious ideas promoted in France after World War II. In response to the suggestion of the Society of Jesus to collaborate with the reconstitution of the Ignatian history, Certeau developed important critical studies about the Jesuits Pierre Favre and Surin. It is suggested that Certeau not only maintained certain affinity with the history of ideas in this process, by refuting the fragmentation of interpretation of religious discourse in different methodologies and knowledge and focusing on the understanding of their organizing principles, but also innovated to indicate that the need the recognition of a loss epistemic and existential, inherent in the translation of religious experience through language. Note, however, that such failure would contain an intrinsic positive, because it would raise countless reinterpretations, then come to be called by Certeau as "authority." In parallel, the same absence trigger enunciative practices aimed at dialogue with otherness, an indivisible act of believing and the establishment of an intersubjectivity in the media.