Year: 1968
Type: article
Abstract: URING 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
Author: Ralph Della Cava
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2320924959