摘要：The objective of this article is to analyze the classified historiographic production, as History of Assistance in Goiás and, in a succinct and exploratory way; to expose the presuppositions and conceptual interpretations about poverty, charity, philanthropy and welfarism according to research carried out from the old capital of Vila Boa to modern and modern Goiânia. In a first moment, we will present the meaning of the terms charity and associations interrelated to the brotherhoods in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Finally, we will try to understand from the religiosity a whole new world at the end of the nineteenth until the middle of the XX century. the one of the philanthropy and the one of the charity.
