Bastide 2

religion bond of "godparenthood" reinforced bonds of economic or social dependence¹ (40)

chapel-->next to casa-grande; counter-reformation; revived Middle-Ages superstition; chaplain more dependent on the white patriarch who supported him than on church hierarchy² (40)

formation of a "household Catholicism centred on the worship of the patriarch's guardian saints and of the family dead."³ (41)

Jesuits: channel of communication between America and Europe with a strong hold over women and children. Avoided the disintegration of society and support for Portuguese values⁴

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 40.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 40.

3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 41.

4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 41–42.