As reinvenções das religiões afro-brasileiras em Campina Grande-PB (1920-1980).

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.