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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... example of the Hail Mary. It was not, however, until the sixteenth century that the final supplication of the Ave Maria, “Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death,” was officially incorporated.6 In fact, Gregory the Great ...
... example, the infamous Lady Godiva of Coventry, on her death in 1075, left a string of gems that she used to keep track of her prayers to a statue of the Virgin, “the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order ...
... examples of much more practical miracles, such as blind, mute, or paralyzed people becoming well; a sterile woman becoming fertile; or people being raised from the dead. According to the stories, praying the rosary could also give the ...
... example, King Bemoin of Senegal traveled to Lisbon in 1488 and converted to Christianity, in a ceremony at which the king and queen of Portugal acted as his godparents. Despite this, when Bemoin returned on a Portuguese ship to Senegal ...
... example, despite the fact that the brotherhood admitted slaves, slaves could not be officers, nor could white ... examples of those who, finding themselves captives in an infidel land, were freed through devotion to the rosary, and after ...
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 |
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Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil Elizabeth W. Kiddy No preview available - 2007 |