Bastide ctd

Brazilian Catholicism: plantation chapel; domestic patriarchal religion / Portuguese Catholicism--> cathedral, provincial church, village religion¹ (109)

separation between White and ABR Catholicism under white control². (109) lack of black clergy³ (111) Black Catholicism "class subculture"⁴ (113)

role of Black fraternities: means for slave to gain freedom; guarantee proper funeral⁵ (113-118) street centre of black catholic devotion⁶ (118)

infusion of African elements into Black Catholicism accepted by RCC⁷ (124-125)

limited cathechesis so that "During the official period Catholicism superimposed itself on African religion rather than replacing it"⁸ (126) Many slave owners against conversion of slaves⁹ (127)

Focus of clergy on profession rather tan mission. MG--> priests duties limited to Sundays; owned mines, sugar mills. involved in contraband--> went to church with concubines and children¹⁰

1R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 109.

2R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 109.

3R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 111.

4R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 113.

5R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 113–118.

6R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 118.

7R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 124–125.

8R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 126.

9R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 127.

10R Bastide, The African Religions of Brazil: Towards a Sociology of the Interpenetration of Civilizations (London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978) 127.