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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 Brigida, 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.Pessar combines cultural history spanning the colonial period to the present; comparative case studies of the Canudos, Contestado, Juazeiro, and Santa Brigida movements; and three decades of ethnographic research in the Brazilian Northeast. Highlighting the involvement of a broad range of individuals and institutions, the cross-fertilization between movements, contestation and accommodation vis-a-vis the church and state, and matters of spirituality and faith, From Fanatics to Folk reveals Brazilian millenarianism as long-enduring and constantly in flux.
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28 janvier 2004

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9780822385653

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English

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FROM FANATICS TO FOLK
 . 
FROM FANATICS TO FOLK
Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Durham and London 
©  Duke University Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of
America on acid-free paper 
Designed by Amy Ruth Buchanan
Typeset in Quadraat by Tseng
Information Systems, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-
in-Publication data appear on the
last printed page of this book.
Frontis: Romeiros on a pilgrimage,
Juazeiro, .
For two saintly women
and one wonderfully mortal man,
Maria das Dores dos Santos,
Irene Oberfield Pessar,
and Gil Joseph
CONTENTS
List of Illustrationsix
Acknowledgmentsxi
Introduction
The World Turned Upside Down: The Origins of the Canudos, Contestado, and Juazeiro Movements
The Povo Make a Saint
The Coronel and the Beato
‘‘Work Like You’re Going to Live Forever and Pray Like You’re Going to Die Today’’
Pedro Batista ‘‘Moves On’’ and the King Attempts to Claim the Throne
A Romaria Se Acabou(The Romaria Is Over)
Constituting the Romeiros into ‘‘Traditional’’ Folk
Conclusion
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ILLUSTRATIONS
Maps
Brazil, including Santa Brígida, Juazeiro, Canudos, and Contestado.
Northeast Brazil with sites most relevant to the history of Santa Brígida.
Figures
Pedro Batista da Silva in  shortly before his death.
A statue of Padre Cícero in front of the altar of a romeiro home.
Elderly baiano who in  welcomed Pedro Batista to Santa Brígida.
Colonel Jõao Sá, the political leader of Jeremoabo.
Maria das Dores dos Santos, circa .
Romeiros in an Easter procession praying before a Station of the Cross in the Serra do Galeão, .
Pedro Batista’s home, .
Romeiro visiting Pedro Batista’s home, .
Members of Os Penitentes pray at night in Santa Brígida’s São Pedro church, .
São Pedro church, .
Members of Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte praying over the saint’s image, circa .
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