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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... priests to any lands they conquered. The head of the Order of Christ, a position held by Prince Henry the Navigator and then successive kings of Portugal, had the right to nominate priests and bishops; to impose censures and other ...
... priesthood.63 Throughout the sixteenth century the Kongolese royal family sent sons to Portugal to study in the Lisbon monastery of Saint John the Evangelist, known popularly as Saint Eloi. After the mid-sixteenth century, when the ...
... priest published a work in Lisbon that contained a “letter of slavery” to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph in which he presented the rosary worn around his neck as a sign of his slavery. The Jesuit preacher, Antonio Vieira, used a similar idea ...
... priest and an important person in the king's court: This Priest in my Company being once in Discourse with one of the King's Grandees, who was a witty Man, said in a menacing manner, That if the Fidasians continu'd their old Course of ...
... priests rather to make himself powerful against his neighbours with our favour than from a desire for baptism.”28 The king of Allada in 1658 had requested missionaries from the king of Spain and expressed a desire to be baptized but ...
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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