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This book examines the nature of messianic movements by studying a specific case history. Carole Myscovski argues that underlying any single messianic movement is a messianic tradition that draws together messianic and related religious beliefs, rituals, and social structures. She traces the Luso-Brazilian messianic tradition from its origins in sixteenth-century Portugal to its flowering in colonial Brazil to its expression in three nineteenth-century messianic movements. Challenging sociopolitical and psychological analyses that reduce religious activity to proto-nationalism or psychosis, Myscofski establishes a historical model for investigating messianic movements in general, while providing new information about a little known Brazilian religious tradition.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: When Men Walk Dry
• Author: Carole A. Myscofski
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781555402570
• ISBN: 1555402577
• ID: 04807346
• Publisher: OUP USA
• Weight: 270 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 141 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. January 1989

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