A Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário e São Benedito dos Homens: marcas e memórias na cidade do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The central theme of this research is to understand how the presence of the church Nossa Senhora do Rosário e São Benedito dos Homens Pretos, located at Rua da Uruguaiana, 77, in Rio de Janeiro, is perceived by the individuals who frequent it and circulate around it. Does it mark the city of Rio in some way? To this end, this objective also involves identifying which representations are constituted about them and surrounded by which memories. Furthermore, think about the practices developed there beyond religious cults, with the aim of identifying in the meanings and meanings given by the subjects, the relationships between religion and education. I expand the lens of brotherhood to the church, understanding in the case of black brotherhoods, Silva's (2008) definition of Africanized Catholicism. Interviews are used as a methodology based on Bourdieu (2008), which indicates establishing a conversation in which the people interviewed have freedom, in a non-hierarchical way, reducing the natural discomfort of an interview. I use the sources of my observations noted in my field diary and the methodology of autoethnography, which is the production of new knowledge of social experience based on my own biography, I explore the writing of ethnographic production and social knowledge that includes my history, I include myself in this observation as I observe and write, (López Pérez, 2023).