Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, BrazilBlacks of the Rosary tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary in Minas Gerais. It shows how these brotherhoods functioned as a social space in which Africans and their descendants could rebuild a communal identity based on a shared history of an African past and an ongoing devotional practice, thereby giving rise to enduring transnational cultures that have survived to the present day. In exploring this intersection of community, identity, and memory, the book probes the Portuguese and African contributions to the brotherhoods in Part One. Part Two traces the changes and continuities within the organizations from the early eighteenth century to the end of the Brazilian Empire, and the book concludes in Part Three with discussion of the twentieth-century brotherhoods and narratives of the participants in brotherhood festivals in the 1990s. In a larger sense, the book serves as a case study through which readers can examine the strategies that Afro-Brazilians used to create viable communities in order to confront the asymmetry of power inherent in the slave societies of the Americas and their economic and social marginalization in the twentieth century. |
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... According to the legend, Saint Dominic used this method to convert the Albigensians (better known as the Cathars), a gnostic sect in the south of France whose “radically puritanical” views were spreading in the beginning of the ...
... According to the stories, praying the rosary could also give the faithful access to material wealth. All the stories attested to the miraculous power of the rosary and the brotherhoods of the rosary as well as the intercessionary powers ...
... according to a Portuguese outlook on the world, the basis of which was the organization of corporate groups. The Portuguese welcomed and encouraged lay brotherhoods of Africans, yet the early years of contact were marked by ...
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Contents
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3 Early Formation of the Brotherhoods 16901750 | 67 |
4 The Late Colonial Period 17501822 | 103 |
5 The Brotherhoods in the Brazilian Empire | 139 |
6 Congados and Reinados 18881990 | 173 |
7 Voices of the Congadeiros | 207 |
Conclusion | 241 |
Appendix | 251 |
Glossary | 259 |
Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 281 |
Back Cover | 288 |
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Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy Limited preview - 2005 |
Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy Limited preview - 2007 |
Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy No preview available - 2007 |