CARVALHO, A. P.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1231222667088800; CARVALHO, Amanda Peixoto de.
Abstract:
In this work we try to contribute to the history of african-Brazilian religions and especially in
Paraiba in Campina Grande, in which we seek to highlight the struggles, resistance, conflict
and repression suffered by these practitioners religiousness. Our main objective is to
problematize the social-historical reinventions of african-Brazilian religions in this state in the
mid-twentieth century. Reinventions not in forms of worship, but ways in which they could
have more room in society, in the midst of a history of repression. In addition to the
representations constructed by the society around african-Brazilian religions. For this study,
we used various sources such as laws, criminal procedures, oral histories, string, newspapers,
statistical data from the IBGE, and a recording of a local radio program. The research grew
out of the major benchmarks such as E. Thompson, James Scoot, Michael de Certeau and
Roger Chartier, among others. Just divide the work into three times, first discussed how the
concept of african-Brazilian and the different uses of spaces and territories of the city of
Campina Grande "Catimbozeiros" and "witches." Secondly, the repressions evidenced by
various social strata to scientific and religions of African descent and also the strength to keep
their religious cults. In our last chapter we discuss the representations and built around images
of african-Brazilian religions in the newspapers, radio or in twine, which in most cases are
reported in a stereotyped fashion. Thus, among the various observations in this study, we
conclude that it was and continues to be a struggle against religious intolerance, and a long
history of resistance to keep the services in the yards in town. Thus, practitioners of african-
Brazilian religions had to "reinvent" to achieve the permanence of the rituals.