The Tupi confession: the issue of Jesuit-Tupi confessionals in the 16th-18th centuries in the Grão-Pará and Maranhãos and Brazils missions

Author(s)

Jaqueline Ferreira da Mota

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Paulo.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
• Defense date: 2017-03-10

Examining board members

Adone Agnolin; Ruth Maria Fonini Monserrat; Eduardo de Almeida Navarro; Maria Cristina Pompa; Berenice Alcántara Rojas

• Advisor: Adone Agnolin

Abstract

This doctoral dissertationpresents acomparative study of five Tupi confessionals establishedin missionary regions of the Grão-Pará and Maranhão and Brazilprovincesbetween the 16thand 18thcenturies. The overall objective of the study is to present the intended Catholic confession models in each of the centuriesreferred to, considering the places of origin of penitent Indians and the religious institution to which theconfessorsbelonged, the different models available to apply the Sacramentof Penance(sometimes printed, sometimes manuscripts),and the contexts in which theJesuit missionswere developed. We assume that the Jesuits, despite havinga universal purpose of evangelization, had to adapt to the different realities presented by their indigenous interlocutors, conditioned by the different cultural spaces (physical and temporal) where the missioning had arisen. Besides the linguistic analysis (terminology and translation) conducted within a historical perspective andits anthropological repercussions, another methodologyusedfor guidance and support isthe one drafted by the Italian School of History of Religions. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/15361-9 - Confession Tupi: Jesuit-Tupi confessionals in the sixteenth-eighteenth missions of Grão-Pará and Maranhão and Brazil
• Grantee: Jaqueline Ferreira da Mota
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate