Brazilian Messianism and National Institutions: A Reappraisal of Canudos and Joaseiro
1968; Duke University Press; Volume: 48; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1215/00182168-48.3.402
ISSN1527-1900
Autores Tópico(s)Religion and Society in Latin America
ResumoURING THE last two decades of the Empire, and t)throughout the Old Republic (1889-1930), the Brazilian Northeast witnessed the emergence of two popular religious movements. One was led by the mystic, Ant6nio Conselheiro. His holy city of about eight thousand sertanejos flourished in the Bahian town of Canudos from 1893 until its destruction by Brazilian federal troops in 1897.1 The other unfolded in 1889 at Joaseiro, a rural hamlet in the verdant Cariry Valley in the southernmost corner of Ceara state. This mystical city and its leader, the suspended Roman Catholic priest, Father Cicero Romao Batista, survived for almost half a century despite the hostility of Church and State.2 When
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