Memórias e vivências na encruzilhada: da trajetória de intolerância religiosa ao encontro com candomblecistas

Abstract

This dissertation consists of the materialization of the paths that led me to study the challenges of living and having lived episodes of religious intolerance. In the first chapter, I bring part of the Report on Intolerance and Religious Violence and the General Balance of Religious Discrimination, whose information and questions allowed me to bet on Escrevivências as a methodology that does not dissolve from points of life and welcomes narratives of memories from the oralitura (inscription of the performance of the voice in the memory). Still in the first chapter, I tell why from my life story, I chose to study religion and specifically the prejudice experienced by the Traditional Communities of Terreiro, represented by the research subjects Claudinha and Pai Beto. The second chapter is for Claudinha. In it I bring “life points” of the research participant, that is, important elements of her history, as well as some possible intersections about her identity as a woman, black and candomblecist. Seen as different from the norm, she lived episodes of intolerance narrated from the episode of the “biblada”, the burial and the “beat thigh”. I dedicated the third chapter to Pai Beto. of his history and experiences as a man, black, candomblecist and gay. To tell you what resonances were possible from our meeting, I invite some reflections, narratives and considerations of the three research participants about how they felt affected and how it was remember important episodes of their lives.