A catolização apressada dos escravos no período da colônia: uma educação para o desencontro de culturas
2006; UNIVERSIDADE DO ESTADO DA BAHIA; Volume: 15; Issue: 26 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2358-0194
Autores Tópico(s)Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
ResumoThe African contingent in Brazil today is a result of massive forced immigration, which occurred during the centuries of colonization. That brutal transplant induced consequences to their established religious beliefs. In such a context, adhesion and religious practices were accomplished without consultation and personal adhesion. The administration of baptism, in fact, was a result of social need that produced a theology of slavery, thus becoming an ideological support of the slave system. Two centuries after the beginning of colonization, the first official document appeared, the First Constitutions of the Archbishopric of Bahia, regulating, besides other matters, the preparation for the baptism and the religious practices in general. But in fact, the socioeconomic slave system was stronger. It caused the desegregation of the black people from their group and their cultural habits. Thus, slavery was seen as the door to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, because the worst would be the slavery of the soul..
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