...Sonny B. Davis, Jr. When Men Walk Dry: Portuguese Messianism in Brazil . By Myscofski Carole A. . Atlanta : Scholars Press , 1988 . Introduction. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. ix , 209 . Paper . $11.95 . ( American Academy of Religion, Academy Series ) Copyright 1990 by Duke...

... essayist, Rui Facó. Facó clearly shows that the concept “fanaticism” as a tool of analysis begs the question. 4 A more recent and perhaps more plausible analysis is offered by the Paulista sociologist, Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz. She regards these movements as “messianic,” i.e., as folk...

... the development of the messianic mission idea embedded in Iberian culture from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, in an attempt to write “deep (longterm) history” ( Tiefengeschichte ) and to illustrate how nations, races, classes, cultures, or a church selects and adopts biblical messages...

... messianic beliefs. Rooted in Mesoamerican traditions of a cyclical cosmology, man-gods, and messianic prophecy, messianic expectations also incorporated the idea of the Spanish king as protector of local community structures. “Indian messianic hopes represented a primitive political irredentism: a basically...

..., the central point in the history of Christianity lies in the eternal conversion of Christians to the messianic God and dismissal of the “conquering God.” Consequently, he does not comment on indigenous peoples’ reception of Christianity. In sum, both studies are well founded and detailed. Although...

... “European.” In chapter 3, Pompa significantly revises a major tenet of Tupi and Guarani religion in the sixteenth century by carefully dissecting the anthropological literature on Tupi-Guarani messianic movements. Pompa argues that the anthropologists who first studied the prophetic tradition among the Tupi...

.... During the crisis of 1810 those warrior-priests molded this indigenously Mexican spiritual heritage into a patriotic, utopian, and Messianic ideology for political emancipation from Spain. Servando Teresa de Mier and Carlos María de Bustamante justified political freedom as the restoration...

... a messianic leader. Lilián Illades Aguiar argues that the rebellion resulted from “the consolidation and intensification of the process of Porfirian political centralization that was so detrimental to local autonomy that it was impossible for the people of the state to maintain their lives and social...

... certain pockets of the marginalized urban poor into society. They drew the line, though, at genuine participation. Conditioned by Aprismo’s authoritarian streak and messianic approach, García and his cohorts, as Graham depicts them, preferred manipulative, clien-telistic politics to participatory...

..., especially through the impact of Christian linear eschatology. The memory of the Incas, and the projects to recreate a just order in the Andes, varied tremendously between various epochs and various social groups working toward those ends. They can take on exclusivist, aristocratic, or messianic forms...

... Christian experience within the Iberian epic tradition” (p. 81). Not only does Teixeira not “defend ultramarine expansion as a messianic mission reserved for Christians of Portugal and Spain,” but he produced “a poetic, messianic, and religious work that assigns a central role to the descendents...

... Colonies in the Caribbean . . . and the ‘Black Code’”) inform on little-known aspects of Jews in the New World. The Jews and the Expansion of Europe begins impressively with essays by James Romm, Noah J. Efron, and Benjamin Schmidt on the biblical and messianic significance of the New World...

... at the lowest level in a decentralized system, was greatly diminished by the disarmament of the sertão in 1930. The paper presented by Ralph della Cava of Columbia University, “Brazilian Messianism and National Institutions: A Comparison of Canudos and Joaseiro, ” examined two popular religious movements...

... worlds as it is seen in Herman Melville’s narrative. De Onís views Captain Ahab’s messianic struggle with the white whale in Moby Dick as an allegory of the confrontation between Protestant North America’s “righteous empire” and the decadent Spanish-speaking people. De Onís stresses that in Melville’s...

... influence is quasi-Messianic: “Because he fought for the poor, and because he chose to be sacrificed in his prime, he gives a mystical feeling that he dies for us , for all humanity” (p. 105). This addition to Viking Press’ “Modern Masters” series is an excellent readable introduction to the life...

... and original ways by P. Fríkel and R. Ribeiro. R. Duarte adds to the growing list of case studies of peasant messianic movements, with a piece on the Pau de Colher rising of 1938 in the Bahian sertão; M. I. P. Queiroz provides a sociological analysis of the peasant dança de São Gonçalo in the same region...

..., Argentina and the United States are too much alike. For example, both have foreign policies imbued with moralism, messianism, and exceptionalism. But the hemisphere was just too small for two exceptionalist countries. In the end, Argentina settled for far less: it resisted rather than became a hegemon...

... that of an inquirer after, or reporter of, knowledge. For the benefit of readers who might otherwise miss the book’s messianic point, the volume is also equipped with a foreword by Dardo Cuneo reminding us of Frondizi’s political imprisonment and the text of a petition signed by forty-six variously prominent...

..., to anthropological views of Brazilian history. The opening essay is a complex and rather tortured structural interpretation of a messianic episode in 1963 among the Ramkokamekra-Canela (a Gé-speaking tribe of northeastern Brazil), originally reported by William H. Crocker. In the essays on ethnic identity, Cameiro...

.... The book also contains excellent analyses of the “new historical discourse” introduced by the conquest: the rise of the “messianic and evangelical imperialism” of writers like Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Francisco López de Gómara; the opposed mystical, apocalyptic vision of pro-Indian writers like...