Poder feminino e identidade na Irmandade da Boa Morte

Abstract

This paper addresses the feminine power that the sisters of the Brotherhood of the Good Death waterfall establish this institution and beyond, as well as these black women are their religious identities. The religious brotherhoods in nineteenth century Bahia functioned as spaces of solidarity for black men and women, marked by the suffering of slavery and the Sisterhood of the Good Death Barroquinha is the result of black entrepreneurship, it shared the torture of the slave regime and longed for a dignified death for themselves and for those living in the same condição.As sisters the good death interviewed with their independence and autonomy can hold the power within and outside the boundaries of irmandade.As sisters to profess two religions, Catholic and candomblé, establish boundaries, but these are relaxed, when elements of Candomblé rituals are Catholics and this occurs when the sisters celebrate death, thus demonstrating how is the dynamic reality of hybridity in the Brotherhood of the Good Morte.A invention of a tradition has become a way paras sisters legitimize their position within religious and continue the institution.