I’m studying a bachelor in Science of Religion. We have to take on a foreign language (I got a permission to select Brazilian Portuguese language classes which I did abroad) and then translate and analyse a religious text that was originally written in that language.
I am having trouble finding such. The Bible is a translation so that I can’t use; candomblé and umbanda are traditionally not scripture-based; nor are the indigenous religions.
I’m mostly interested in the meeting between indigenous cultures and the Catholic Church, but any suggestions would do. Could be any first meeting where they mention a saint or describe the Catholic or heathen religions, rituals, religious people, etc. Could be a later, important religious speech. Stuff like the vatican's speech about liberation theology is also a translation, so that doesn't work either.
My own professors are not in fields related to Brazil or Portuguese so I can't ask them for help, and I am the only one who got the permission to take Portuguese so I can't ask my study buddies for help either.
A good source is the John Carter Brown Library’s Portugal & Brazil collection page: https://archive.org/details/jcbportugalbrazil
Hello there friend, I'm also a fellow Historian here in Brazil. Hope the book I mention here might help.
The book (which I am directly looking at haha) is "O Brasil Colonial" the first volume which is a collection of Academic works organized by João Fragoso and Maria de Fátima Gouvêa. The chapter which I believe will be useful for your research is Chapter 4: "Os Indígenas na fundação da colônia: uma abordagem crítica" by historian João Pacheco de Oliveira. Chapter 11 might also interest you, "Igreja, inquisição e religiosidade coloniais" by Georgina Silva dos Santos and Ronaldo Vainfas. Also if you have any questions that I might answer feel free to ask. Also will see if I have the Pdf version and if I can make it available for you, although I am almost certain this book is only available in Portuguese. Good luck on your research and hope this helps.
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