Alternative modernities: statecraft and religious imagination in the Valley of the Dawn
| Autor: | James Holston |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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spirit possession
Anthropology Emblem media_common.quotation_subject Modernity bureaucracy Possession (law) Valley of the Dawn millenarian religion Event (philosophy) Brasília ritual State (polity) Capital (economics) mimesis nation-state Sociology Bureaucracy Millenarianism Religious studies law modernity Brazil media_common |
| Zdroj: | American Ethnologist, vol 26, iss 3 |
| Popis: | Many new religions promote the emblems and institutions of modern nation-states. In this article, I consider an example from Brazil, analyzing the mimetic relations between its modernist capital, Brasilia, and a millenarian and ecstatic religion called the Valley of the Dawn located on the city's outskirts. I focus on the project of salvation that each sponsors and on a religious ritual that stages a judicial event associated with the state. Arguing against compensatory explanations, I suggest that both state and religion are performances, mutually critical, of the same paradigm of modernity. [Brazil, modernity, millenarian religion, spirit possession, ritual, nation-state, bureaucracy, law] |
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