Confession Tupi: Jesuit-Tupi confessionals in the sixteenth-eighteenth missions of Grão-Pará and Maranhão and Brazil

• Grant number: 13/15361-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: November 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Adone Agnolin
• Grantee: Jaqueline Ferreira da Mota
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The aim of this PhD project is the comparative study of five confessionals Jesuit-Tupi applied in missionary regions of Grão-Pará and Maranhão and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, with the overall objective of presenting models of Catholic confession desired in each one of centuries, considering the social circumstances of penitents and confessors, the available models apply to the sacrament, sometimes printed, sometimes manuscripts and the contexts in which they developed their Jesuit missions. We assumed that the Jesuits, even though they had a purpose of universal evangelization, had to adapt to different realities presented by the speakers and natives by temporal and physical spaces where the missionary occurred. The methodology will be that already drawn by the Italian School of History of Religions and the Sociolinguistics.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

MOTA, Jaqueline Ferreira da. The Tupi confession: the issue of Jesuit-Tupi confessionals in the 16th-18th centuries in the Grão-Pará and Maranhãos and Brazils missions. 2017. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.