Brazilian popular prayers are structured in traditional formulas that expresses mystical attitudes and collective representations. They are addressed to the Catholic saints and ask for love, marriage, money, physical and spiritual defense, employment and cures of diseases. The last are characterized by the narrative of disease’s origins and by the strategies of cure. Their history shows: 1) Permanence in front of repression alike: the Catholic Inquisition from 16th to 18th Centuries; the foreign travelers; the folklorists and Brazilian ecclesiastics since 19th Century who considered them as fruit of the ignorance; in the Penal Codes of 1898 and 1940, which the use of cure prayers is crime. 2) Passage from the oral to writing since 19th Cent...
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In the 1970s and 1980s, popular communication experiences arose throughout Brazil, with a vast produ...
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Different religions conceive and treat their target public - their followers, old and new - in disti...
Since the colonial centuries many Brazilian celebrations create a symbolic connection bridge between...
SWIFT social changes are occurring in Brazil's religious milieu. Although these changes are mainly c...
This article aims to examine some recent characteristics of Spiritism in Brazil. It points out, in f...
O Círio é uma celebração em homenagem à Nossa Senhora de Nazaré realizado desde 1793 no Estado do Pa...
Investigar uma palavra é investigar também a cultura, considerando-se que o sistema linguístico, nom...
O pensamento mágico e o recurso à magia podem ser tão antigos quanto a humanidade, e a doença, pela ...
In this article we analyze three denunciations made by the Holy Office during its final visitation t...
In the 1970s and 1980s, popular communication experiences arose throughout Brazil, with a vast produ...
A devoção aos santos Cosme e Damião é antiga no Brasil e conhecida principalmente pela distribuição ...
Catholicism in the early centuries of formation of Brazilian society, took a mandatory character. Th...
Como dois fenômenos religiosos, motivados e sustentados por visões sobrenaturais de crianças e adole...
Popular medicine gained in Brazil a particular meaning. With the junction of elements brought from d...
Brazil was discovered and occupied under the aegis of Christianity, reinforced by the movement of th...
Este artigo limita-se a um mapeamento introdutório do nexo entre o binômio cura/doença e algumas prá...
Different religions conceive and treat their target public - their followers, old and new - in disti...
Since the colonial centuries many Brazilian celebrations create a symbolic connection bridge between...
SWIFT social changes are occurring in Brazil's religious milieu. Although these changes are mainly c...
This article aims to examine some recent characteristics of Spiritism in Brazil. It points out, in f...
O Círio é uma celebração em homenagem à Nossa Senhora de Nazaré realizado desde 1793 no Estado do Pa...
Investigar uma palavra é investigar também a cultura, considerando-se que o sistema linguístico, nom...
O pensamento mágico e o recurso à magia podem ser tão antigos quanto a humanidade, e a doença, pela ...
In this article we analyze three denunciations made by the Holy Office during its final visitation t...
In the 1970s and 1980s, popular communication experiences arose throughout Brazil, with a vast produ...