Abstract

This article aims to problematize, through the theoretical contributions of the post-colonial studies, the catholic church’s colonization project towards the Amapaense Amazon’s popular catholicism - such as the Myth of Cobra Grande - constituted as a project evolved around eurocentric and judeo-christian assumptions to the detriment of afro-amerindian cultural, identity and religious expressions, of catholic communities in the urban and rural areas of the brazilian Amazon. The amazonian population develops strategies of resistance and re-existence in order to maintain their religious traditions around festa dos santos (festival of saints), pilgrimages, festivities, rosaries, quermesses, and other activities as forms of origins establishment or origins return for the foundation of a narrative identity..

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  • Perspectivismo amerindio en los discursos míticos del catolicismo popular en la Amazonía Resumen: Este artículo tiene como objetivo problematizar, a través de las contribuciones teóricas de los estudios poscoloniales, el proyecto de colonización de la iglesia católica hacia el catolicismo popular amapaense de la Amazonía, como el Mito de la Cobra Grande, constituido como un proyecto desarrollado alrededor del eurocentrismo y el judeocristiano. supuestos en detrimento de las expresiones culturales, de identidad y religiosas afro-amerindias, de las comunidades católicas en las zonas urbanas y rurales de la Amazonía brasileña

  • Amerindian Perspectivism in the Mythicized Discourses of Popular Catholicism in the Amazon Abstract: This article aims to problematize, through the theoretical contributions of the post-colonial studies, the catholic church’s colonization project towards the Amapaense Amazon’s popular catholicism - such as the Myth of Cobra Grande - constituted as a project evolved around eurocentric and judeo-christian assumptions to the detriment of afro-amerindian cultural, identity and religious expressions, of catholic communities in the urban and rural areas of the brazilian Amazon

  • Since the beginning of the europeans’ presence in the Amazon, catholicism was important for the implementation of a colonizing project endorsed by the great maritime powers in the 15th and 16th centuries, such as Portugal and Spain, which begat a variety of experienced and shared identity expressions that were syncretic by hybridizations and miscegenations, that show us a very different conception of the world than that dictated by europeans, caucasians, christians and westerners

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Perspectivismo amerindio en los discursos míticos del catolicismo popular en la Amazonía Resumen: Este artículo tiene como objetivo problematizar, a través de las contribuciones teóricas de los estudios poscoloniales, el proyecto de colonización de la iglesia católica hacia el catolicismo popular amapaense de la Amazonía, como el Mito de la Cobra Grande, constituido como un proyecto desarrollado alrededor del eurocentrismo y el judeocristiano. supuestos en detrimento de las expresiones culturales, de identidad y religiosas afro-amerindias, de las comunidades católicas en las zonas urbanas y rurales de la Amazonía brasileña.

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