Patricia Souza de Faria
Associate Professor in the History Department at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. PhD History at Federal Fluminense University (UFF, Brazil); Visiting PhD Student at Lisbon Institute University (IUL – ISCTE, Portugal). M.A. in History and B.A. in History at Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ, Brazil). Visiting Scholar at Évora University, Portugal (CAPES-Brazil Postdoctoral Scholarship) and Visiting Researcher (postdoctoral studies) at Centre des Recherches Historiques at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales- EHESS, Paris.
Awarded a Young Scientists Program scholarship (supported by Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support Foundation, FAPERJ) for carrying out the research project entitled “From Goa to Lisbon: The Religiosities and the Everyday Life of the Asian Slaves Tried by the Inquisition – XVIth and XVIIth Centuries)”. Carried out investigations on Christianization, religious orders and native clergy in the Portuguese Asian Empire with support from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil) and FAPERJ.
Coordinator of Laboratory of Iberian Worlds (LAMI-UFRRJ). Member of the “Thinking Goa” Project (Thematic Project of FAPESP - São Paulo State Research Foundation), the Brazilian pole of the Columnaria network (“Red Columnaria”) for Studies on Iberian Empires in Modern Age, and the H-Moderna.
Main research topics: Franciscans in Goa; the Goa Inquisition; Enslaved People in the Portuguese Empire in Asia.
Areas of interest: Religions and Religiosities in the Modern Era; Inquisition and History of Christian Missions; The Iberian Empires in the Modern Era; Power, Culture and Society in the Ancient Regime; The Portuguese Empire in Asia.
Awarded a Young Scientists Program scholarship (supported by Carlos Chagas Filho Research Support Foundation, FAPERJ) for carrying out the research project entitled “From Goa to Lisbon: The Religiosities and the Everyday Life of the Asian Slaves Tried by the Inquisition – XVIth and XVIIth Centuries)”. Carried out investigations on Christianization, religious orders and native clergy in the Portuguese Asian Empire with support from CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, Brazil) and FAPERJ.
Coordinator of Laboratory of Iberian Worlds (LAMI-UFRRJ). Member of the “Thinking Goa” Project (Thematic Project of FAPESP - São Paulo State Research Foundation), the Brazilian pole of the Columnaria network (“Red Columnaria”) for Studies on Iberian Empires in Modern Age, and the H-Moderna.
Main research topics: Franciscans in Goa; the Goa Inquisition; Enslaved People in the Portuguese Empire in Asia.
Areas of interest: Religions and Religiosities in the Modern Era; Inquisition and History of Christian Missions; The Iberian Empires in the Modern Era; Power, Culture and Society in the Ancient Regime; The Portuguese Empire in Asia.
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also discusses the challenges of studying enslaved children, considering the possibilities and limitations of analysis based on Portuguese sources from Goa and Lisbon, such as manumission letters and ecclesiastical and inquisitorial sources. This article is part of the special theme section on Women, Children, and Enslaved People in the Portuguese Empire in Asia, 16th-18th Centuries, guest-edited by Rozely Vigas and Rômulo Ehalt.
also discusses the challenges of studying enslaved children, considering the possibilities and limitations of analysis based on Portuguese sources from Goa and Lisbon, such as manumission letters and ecclesiastical and inquisitorial sources. This article is part of the special theme section on Women, Children, and Enslaved People in the Portuguese Empire in Asia, 16th-18th Centuries, guest-edited by Rozely Vigas and Rômulo Ehalt.
FARIA, Patricia Souza de. A conquista das almas do oriente: franciscanos, catolicismo e poder colonial português em Goa (1540-1740). Rio de Janeiro: 7 Letras, 2013.