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4.7
46 reviews Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz,
this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular
religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly detailed transcripts
from Inquisition trials, Mello e Souza reconstructs how Iberian,
indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic and magical
religious culture in Brazil.
Focusing on sorcery,
the author argues that European traditions of witchcraft combined with
practices of Indians and African slaves to form a uniquely Brazilian set
of beliefs that became central to the lives of the people in the
colony. Her work shows how the Inquisition reinforced the view held in
Europe (particularly Portugal) that the colony was a purgatory where
those who had sinned were exiled, a place where the Devil had a wide
range of opportunities. Her focus on the three centuries of the colonial
period, the multiple regions in Brazil, and the Indian, African, and
Portuguese traditions of magic, witchcraft, and healing, make the book
comprehensive in scope.
