O discurso religioso dos afrodescendentes da localidade de São José das Três Ilhas: memórias herdadas, identidades em construção

Abstract

In the trajectory of black and Afro-descendant issues such as diaspora, culture and religion, some time ago, is being studied under new perspectives. These new approaches reveal underlying the Afro-descendant address the issue of identity often revealed through gestures, glances and unspoken. This study aims to understand the construct of religious identity based on fluid and fluctuating memories of African descent living in São José das Três Ilhas. We intend to investigate how, between memories and forgetfulness, Afrodescendants build their religious discourse in a region where the symbols and rituals of the Catholic tradition are configured as a strong appeal maintenance of the status quo. It will argue that the revealed memories or silenced by African descendants make a counterpoint to everyday life, redefining a new identity that oscillates between cultural base, the echoes of ancestral knowledge and the fear of exposing themselves in a community with white cultural base, European and Catholic. It will adopt as a methodology oral history and participant observation in order to describe and interpret the variables: cultural base, life history, memory; and how these variables are interrelated in the process of affirming the religious identity of African descent who live there.