An Analysis of Luso-Brazilian Religiosity in the Eighteenth Century from the Psychosocial Perspective of Rudolf Otto
During the colonization of southern Brazil under the government of Dom Luís Antônio de Souza Botelho Mourão, military personnel and Franciscan missionaries came into contact with indigenous populations (1771-1774) and, at the same time, produced texts and images related to their cultural, psychologi...
| Published in: | Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Morcelliana
2016
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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| Further subjects: | B
Cultural History of Sensitivities
B Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) B sensitivity analysis B History of Colonial Brazil B storia culturale della sensibilità B RELIGIOUS psychology B psychology of religion B storia del Brasile coloniale B History B Brazilian history B Storia e religiosità B Otto, Rudolf, 1869-1937 B Religiousness B psicologia della religione B History and Religiosity |
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| Summary: | During the colonization of southern Brazil under the government of Dom Luís Antônio de Souza Botelho Mourão, military personnel and Franciscan missionaries came into contact with indigenous populations (1771-1774) and, at the same time, produced texts and images related to their cultural, psychological and religious practices. In the military reports (9), correspondence (20) sonnets (2) and watercolor paintings (39) that informed the Portuguese Crown of the results of colonization and the indigenous conversion policy of the Marquis of Pombal, ancient pagan beliefs and Christian symbiologies were also evoked, namely those that were related to both sacramental rites and the elements of nature (flora and fauna). In this paper, our aim is to analyze this documentation based on the dialectic relationship between popular religiosity and the Christian religion, resulting from mental and cultural constructions, and considering their common and uncommon traits according to the phenomenology of the holy of Rudolf Otto (1869-1937). Consequently, this study seeks to understand, within the scope of psychology and the religious experience, the social and cultural relationships and the ways of feeling, thinking and representing the presence of the holy (mysterium tremendum et fascinans) at the end of the Luso-Brazilian colonial period. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
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