Patricia R Pessar

From Fanatics to Folk

Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Complicates conventional understandings of millenarianism by blurring the divides erected around specific movements, analyzes why religion is often erased from discussions of Brazilian millenarianism, and considers how religion and politics are entwined i

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332640
• ISBN-10: 0822332647
• Artikelnr.: 22055142

Autorenporträt

Patricia R. Pessar

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1 The World Turned Upside Down: The Origins of the Canudos, Contestado, and
Juazeiro Movements 15
2 The Povo Make a Saint 37
3 The Coronel and the Beato 67
4 “Work Like You’re Going to Live Forever and Pray Like You’re Going to Die
Today” 97
5 Pedro Batista “Moves On” and the King Attempts to Claim the Throne 135
6 A Romaria Se Acabou (The Romaria Is Over) 153
7 Constituting the Romeiros into “Traditional” Folk 185
Conclusion 225
Postscript 233
Notes 235
Bibliograaphy 251
Index 263