Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in BrazilAt a time when scholars are beginning to think about the political implications of grass roots religion around the world, Kingdoms Come explores the popular religions in Brazil. Rowan Ireland examines the three main religious traditions at the grass roots in Brazil - folk Catholicism, Protestant Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian spiritism - and traces the contrasting definitions of political problems that arise from these spiritual cultures. |
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a syncretism of middle - class European style spiritualism , a variety of Afro cults
of the spirits and a reconstruction of Amerindian spirit cults . The Jurema family
consists of caboclo Amerindian spirits and spirit masters , who seem to be shared
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a syncretism of middle - class European style spiritualism , a variety of Afro cults
of the spirits and a reconstruction of Amerindian spirit cults . The Jurema family
consists of caboclo Amerindian spirits and spirit masters , who seem to be shared
...
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So she must train her powers of concentration and purify herself so that the spirit
can communicate . The medium should also understand that what is important in
the meetings is not the manobras ( manipulations ) that the spirits perform on the
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So she must train her powers of concentration and purify herself so that the spirit
can communicate . The medium should also understand that what is important in
the meetings is not the manobras ( manipulations ) that the spirits perform on the
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Dona Rosária ' s spirit world is tidily arranged . It is elaborately structured from
higher spirits , with Jesus Christ at the top ; through the great departed thinkers of
Western civilization ; to the lower spirits , the old slaves , the cowboy spirits , the ...
Dona Rosária ' s spirit world is tidily arranged . It is elaborately structured from
higher spirits , with Jesus Christ at the top ; through the great departed thinkers of
Western civilization ; to the lower spirits , the old slaves , the cowboy spirits , the ...
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| Título | Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil Pitt Latin American Series, ISSN 2644-1187 Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies |
| Autor | Rowan Ireland |
| Colaborador | University of Pittsburgh |
| Edição | ilustrada |
| Editora | University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991 |
| Original de | Universidade do Texas |
| Digitalizado | 25 Fev 2008 |
| ISBN | 0822936968, 9780822936961 |
| Número de páginas | 262 páginas |
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