Estratégias de mediação simbólica em um calundu colonial

Abstract

This article is an interpretation of the inquisitorial process against Luzia Pinta, practiser of magical-religious rites called calundus in Sabará in the XVIIIth century, intending to analyze the strategies and routes of symbolical mediation between African religious traditions and the Catholicism, which engendered the elaboration of new symbolical practices in Portuguese America.Este artigo procura interpretar o processo inquisitorial de Luzia Pinta, praticante de ritos mágico-religiosos denominados calundus em Sabará no século XVIII, com o objetivo de analisar as estratégias e os percursos de mediação simbólica entre tradições religiosas africanas e o catolicismo que engendraram a elaboração de novas práticas simbólicas na América Portuguesa

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This paper was published in Cadernos Espinosanos (E-Journal).

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