The Mystic of Friendship Divining the Present in Settler Amazonia
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.12.2025
Abbildungen
47 halftones, 2 tables
Verlag
University PressesSeitenzahl
320
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2 cm
Gewicht
467 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-226-84577-7
"A vivid portrait of how divine and human intimacies sustain colonization in the Amazon. On Brazil's Amazonian frontier, settlers pursue land and opportunity, but they also gather for prayer and pilgrimage, yearning for a deep relationship with God and one another. In this book, anthropologist Ashley Lebner examines how everyday religious practices and feelings, what she calls a mystic of friendship, shape and sustain colonization in the Amazon. Lebner invites us to a stretch of highway in Para, Brazil, where violent colonization coexists with prophetic dreams, Afro-Brazilian prayers, and emerging evangelicalism. She shows how, amid political tensions and physical hardship, settlers believe that the violence they experience and enact derives from the bestial nature of earthly life that must be overcome. In exposing a desire for divinely-infused friendship that animates colonization, Lebner offers a powerful new perspective on the forces driving colonialism as much as religious and political expression"--
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