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From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture

From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture

Pessar, Patricia R.

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AnthropologyGeneral ChristianitySouth American History

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ISBN10: 0822332752
ISBN13: 9780822332756
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 28 2004
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
From Fanatics to Folk rejects conventional understandings of Brazilian millenarianism as exceptional and self-defeating. Considering millenarianism over the long sweep of Brazilian history, Patricia R. Pessar shows it to have been both dominant discourse and popular culture--at different times the inspiration for colonial conquest, for backlanders' resistance to a modernizing church and state, and for the nostalgic appropriation by today's elites in pursuit of traditional folklore and authentic expressions of faith. Pessar focuses on Santa Brígida, a Northeast Brazilian millenarian movement begun in the 1930s. She examines the movement from its founding by Pedro Batista--initially disparaged as a charlatan by the backland elite and later celebrated as a modernizer, patriot, and benefactor--through the contemporary struggles of its followers to maintain their transgressive religious beliefs in the face of increased attention from politicians, clergy, journalists, filmmakers, researchers, and museum curators.

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