RELIGST 2M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bad Life, Sigmund Freud, Brain Death
4 Jul 2016
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Relig st 2m03 thursday, june 23, 2016. Sisterhood of our lady of the good death. Religious fraternity devoted to assumption of virgin mary. Believed that no one could have a good death if they were a slave must be freed. They worked together to save money to buy and free their family members and other people in the community so that they could have a good death. Festival in town in northern brazil bahia exports tobacco and cotton centre of plantation economy: blending of two religions catholicism and tradition african religions (candomble) Candomble dance in honour of the gods: syncretic religion combining of religions, more than one african tradition oral tradition (no text, but passed down from generation to generation) Members of this sisterhood have transitioned or died (during slavery or fighting for freedom) Greatest symbols of resistance black women united and fought. Worshiped catholic saints as a way to get away. Made up exclusively by women with african descent.
