Abstract

MOURAO, Paulo. The Effect of the Establishment of the Portuguese Republic on the Revenue of Secular Brotherhoods: the Case of “Bom Jesus de Braga”. e-JPH [online]. 2016, vol.14, n.1, pp.20-52. ISSN 1645-6432.

ABSTRACT Following its establishment in 1910, the First Portuguese Republic adopted a markedly anticlerical profile during its early years. Consequently, we hypothesize that the revenue of Portuguese religious institutions should reflect a clear structural break in 1910. However, one of Portugal’s most important historical pilgrimage sites (“Bom Jesus de Braga”) does not seem to have experienced a very significant break. Relying on time series econometrics (consisting primarily of recurring tests for multiple structural breaks), we studied the series of the Bom Jesus revenue between 1863 and 1952 (i.e., between the confiscation of church property by the constitutional monarchy and the stabilization of the Second Republic). It was concluded that 1910 does not represent a significant date for identifying a structural break in this series. However, the last quarter of the nineteenth century cannot be neglected in terms of the structural changes occurring in the Bom Jesus revenue

Keywords : Portuguese economic history; anticlericalism; structural breaks.

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