The mystic of friendship divining the present in settler Amazonia Ashley Lebner

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lebner, Ashley, Author.

Series:

Class 200 : new studies in religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amazon River Region--Colonization.

Amazon River Region.

Amazon River Region--Religion.

Colonization.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chicago University of Chicago Press 2025

Summary:

"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 Pará, 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 longing 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"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Goianesia do Para : the recurrence of allegory

Maraba : the intensification of secularity

Cleusa's settlement : poetry and the devil's arts

Jacunda : the cry and the silence of unity

Fazenda Peruano : law's enmity

Eldorado do Carajas : divining the event

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed December 23, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Lebner, Ashley Mystic of friendship

ISBN:

9780226845760

0226845761

OCLC:

1564060554

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