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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... dead, which resonated not only with early modern Europeans but also with Africans who were exposed to Christianity. In Europe, rosary prayer beads and the brotherhood tradition came together when Jacob Sprenger, an infamous witch hunter ...
... dead, including Masses for the dead.8 The Ave Maria, which would become the most widespread prayer calling on the Virgin's intercession, was not prayed by the general public until the prolific Benedictine cardinal Peter Damian (d. 1072) ...
... dead was added to the list during the Middle Ages.23 In fact, many scholars have placed the question of death at the center of the discussion of brotherhoods by linking their early medieval manifestations to Roman burial societies ...
... dead was related to the brotherhood member's position in the organization—the higher the position, the closer to the altar; and the closer to the altar, the closer to the divine.25 As historian James R. Banker points out, the formation ...
... dead. 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 ...
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 |