Braided: memory and devotion to the Saints of Color in the festivities to Nossa Senhora do Rosário and São Benedito

This paper describes black memories and devotion festivities in Brazil through participant observation and comparative analysis. In order to do so, we seek to investigate Nossa Senhora do Rosário’s festivity in a small village in Minas Gerais and Nossa Senhora do Rosário and São Benedito’s festivity...

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Autor: Paiva, Andréa Lúcia da Silva de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Ciencias Sociales y Religión (Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8670136
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/csr/article/view/8670136
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Memória
Devoção
Santos de cor
Trançado
Catolicismo
Memoria
Devoción
Santos de color
Trenzado
Memory
Devotion
Saints of color
Braided
Catholicism
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Sumario:This paper describes black memories and devotion festivities in Brazil through participant observation and comparative analysis. In order to do so, we seek to investigate Nossa Senhora do Rosário’s festivity in a small village in Minas Gerais and Nossa Senhora do Rosário and São Benedito’s festivity in downtown Rio de Janeiro, through an analytical category: the braided. These festivities reveal devotions to entities classified as Santos de Cor, resignifying symbolic relations between black people and slavery and social inequality. Therefore, we attempt to identify two predominant issues. Firstly, how devotions can involve and mediate followers in a circle of human and non-human relationships, where spirits and objects are materialized. Secondly, how a set of symbolic systems becomes a central point to express the braided, a category of social thought, in the different manifestations of Brazilian Catholicism.