Irmandades do Rosário em Minas e São Paulo: devoções contemporâneas entre histórias e identidades

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the meanings attributed by members and the construction of identity in the Brotherhoods of Our Lady of the Rosary in the contemporary scenario based on the construction and comparative analysis of the social and religious background of institutional and bounded to study sororities: Brotherhood of Our Lady of Rosary of Black Men, the Paissandu in São Paulo and the Brotherhood of Our Lady and St. Efigênia of Black Men, the High Cross in Ouro Preto. This analysis was required to identify aspects of binders that allow members of the congregation in contemporary these brotherhoods by reading the brothers make last own context. The research was based on written documents, in specific literature for each fellowship, iconography, interviews and participant observation, especially on the practices of devotion to identify the relationships between the members of the Brotherhood and the memory of King Chico with the brothers of the Rosary Ouro Preto and the memory of Zumbi and memory of Africa with the brothers of the Rosary of São Paulo. The narrative of the brothers whose families several generations attending Brotherhood, enabled us to understand the meaning it has in the individual memory and collective memory; to verify that the process of interaction with Catholicism assimilated by the brothers remains in the religious practices of the faithful, which retain their cultural logics in part, from the high understanding of their history and understanding of the changes occurring with time. These memories preserve and update the identity of the brothers distinguishing categories that organize the empirical data: memory / forgetting, identity / difference and space / place.