The religious intolerance in the literature of Jorge Amado

From the proposal of thematic area “Expression of Conflicts”, of Duo VII – Dialogue Under Ocuupation event, we propose to think about the religious intolerance while subject of the literature of the brazilian writer Jorge Amado. The religious intolerance appears specially in the book Tenda dos Milag...

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Autor: Sperb, Paula
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:letrônica
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/22381
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/letronica/article/view/22381
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Jorge Amado
Religious intolerance
Racial theories
Literature.
teorias raciais
intolerância religiosa
literatura
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Sumario:From the proposal of thematic area “Expression of Conflicts”, of Duo VII – Dialogue Under Ocuupation event, we propose to think about the religious intolerance while subject of the literature of the brazilian writer Jorge Amado. The religious intolerance appears specially in the book Tenda dos Milagres (1968), in scenes that shows “pais-de santo” and “terreiros de candomblé” being chase. We understand the religious intolerance phenomenon as a consequence of racial theories that were a scientific paradigm in the end of XIX century and at the beginning of XX century. These theories understood race as an explanation for the backwardness or progress of a nation. The “candomblé” religion, according to this scietific perspective, meant the supposed delay of Brazil by being related to african culture. When Jorge Amado was a congressman by the comunist party, he created de law that sets the religious freedom in Brazil, in 1946. For this work we use mainly the thoughts by Leite (1976), Schwarcz (2001) e Skidmore (1989).