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| Author(s): |
Tomás Motta Tassinari
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2019-06-18 |
| Examining board members: |
Adone Agnolin;
Iracema Hilário Dulley;
Nicola Angelo Maria Gasbarro;
Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron
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| Advisor: | Adone Agnolin |
| Abstract | |
The object of this investigation are the Jesuit missions in the kingdoms of Congo and Angola during the second half of the 16th century. I argue these missionaries can be conceptually understood as mediators (as proposed by Paula Montero). Thus, I try to demonstrate how their missions comprehended a double effort of translation. On the one hand, the Jesuits had to translate the local reality to their peers in Europe. According to this perspective, the people from Congo and Angola first had to be subjected by a proper civil power in order to be converted to Christianity afterwards. On the other hand, the Jesuits also tried to translate the Christian religion to their local interlocutors. Not to be insignificant in that context, I argue the missionaries had to strategically face and be confused with the local witches. In conclusion, this reading of the sources results in a historical and comparative definition for the religion of Congo and Angola, as the characterization of the genie of paganism (as proposed by Marc Augé). (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/15870-9 - God, lords, missionaries and witches: the Jesuit mediation of the encounters between Portuguese and Central-Africans (1548-1593) |
| Grantee: | Tomás Motta Tassinari |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |