The Celestial Court of the Sertão: domestic Spaces and the Religious Experience in the Captaincy of Siará Grande (1730 – 1792)
domestic spaces; Colonial Ceará; religious experience; Inquisition.
The present study seeks to understand how the residents of the backlands of the Captaincy of Siará Grande, notably the so-called Ribeira do Jaguaribe, within their domestic spaces, connected or not with institutionalized religiosity in the colonial period. The locus “sertão” will be understood as a dynamic and polysemic category that, during the colonial period, in the context of the conquest processes, came to be considered the antithesis of the widespread concept of “civilization” at the time. The relations of power and hierarchy established within the scope of the social body often permeate it and find an echo in domestic spaces, notably the “house”, in order to make them true mirrors of the society in which they are inserted and not simply private and private strongholds. intimates detached from reality.