Banca de DEFESA: EDUARDO POSSIDONIO

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : EDUARDO POSSIDONIO
DATE: 30/06/2020
TIME: 13:30
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

Calundus, Batuques and Mandingas: Central Africanreligiosity in theparishesof Rio de Janeiro (1800 - 1900

KEY WORDS:

Central Africans, affliction-fruition cults, ngangas, kimbandas, ritualistic initiations, healing, rituals.

PAGES: 368
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUBÁREA: História do Brasil
SUMMARY:

This research aims to analyze the formation of Afro-Brazilian sacred practices, throughout the nineteenth century, through the eyes of the contribution of the Central African peoples, an ethnic group that impacted the transatlantic trafficking until its end. The work starts from the analysis of the first Brazilian researchers and the place reserved for the understanding of Central African heritage in their pioneering contributions. Then, starting in the first half of the 19th century, analyzing the public manifestations of affliction-fruition cults, held in the main streets of the imperial capital, confused by the biased look of travelers, as Sunday celebrations. The second half of the period was marked by the transition of celebrations to the interior of houses and sobrados located in urban parishes of the imperial court. Moment when religious leaders disputed the liturgical spaces of the city, not by chance, priests and priestesses acted with ease a few meters from each other. With the end of trafficking, the second half of the century marked the need for leadership renewal through complex processes of ritual initiation, which when crossed with sources produced in Central African soil, demonstrate an interesting unfolding of a complex process of Creolization initiated on the other side of the Atlantic, which resulted in the birth of an African Christianity, which is the basis for understanding the rituals, which due to the misfortune of the charismatic leaders who were involved with justice, obliged to respond to lengthy inquiries and processes, as well as constant exposure in the press, they ended up unveiling their performance acts and their choices in the field of the sacred. African Christianity also allowed us to shed light on the choices of the first researchers on the issue of blacks in Brazil, who often chose to silence or mainly do not understand the sacred Central African practices, because they believed they were lost to Roman Catholicism. The work concludes with an analysis of the first decades of the 20th century, allowing not only to analyze the developments of the previous period, but also to deconstruct pre-established ideas about Afro-Brazilian religions, which were believed to be the fruit of a tradition.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - JOHN KELLY THORNTON
Externa à Instituição - MARIZA DE CARVALHO SOARES - UFF
Interna - 1579919 - FABIANE POPINIGIS
Presidente - 386989 - MARGARETH DE ALMEIDA GONCALVES
Externo à Instituição - ROBERT WAYNE ANDREW SLENES