Sincretismos, negociações e conflitos: apropriação e inversão do catolicismo nas Irmandades Negras de Nossa Senhora do Rosário na Minas Gerais do século XVII

Abstract

The devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary began in the twelfth century, when it would have appeared to Preacher Domingo de Gusmão who gave a prayer to be performed with the help of contas. The Dominicans were responsible for the dissemination of the cult of holly. The process of expansion and colonization allowed contact with the peoples dominated the saint. Blacks in Africa, Europe (especially in Portugal) and the American colonies (especially those inhabited Brazil) adopted Our Lady of the Rosary as a protector. The Blacks Brotherhood of devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary, especially in the eighteenth century in Villa Rica, beyond the black catechization constituted important area of negotiation an conflicts. The contact between Catholicism and African black culture within the Brotherhood of the Rosary is experiencing a syncretism that re-semanticed the universe of Africans and their descendants whose manifestation was mainly at the party in honor of the saint with his congado.