The contrast between orality and writing in candomblé terreiros: the fundamentals notebooks as part of the memory of a religion

Abstract

In candomblé, a religion with great influence from the heritage of the African continent, the oral tradition was present from the beginning of its creation and is latent until today. Contrasting with the orality, one finds in religious spaces and used by their adherents the notebooks of fundamentals, objects of study of this article, where their uses and particularities are analyzed. When approaching the ethnographies, Araújo and Lima (2018), and Castillo (2010) was crucial to define and conceptualize the records of Afro-Brazilian religion. The starting point was to research the memory of religious groups, such as oral and written traditions, and, subsequently, to analyze the historical context of Brazilian worship, particularly in Rio de Janeiro. The core of the research was to address the use and production of these documents in the context of Information Science. The qualitative methodology was used through the use of bibliographical sources. It is concluded that the use of written records, combined with orality, is part of the history of religion, which, the orality factor will always be the most important.