As Fadas de Piedade e as bruxas de Salém = The Pity Fairies and the Salem Witches

How can two religious phenomena, motivated and sustained bysupernatural visions of children and adolescents result in totally diametricallydifferent personal and social transformations? One of the phenomena studied ispart of the Brazilian Catholicism and refers to an apparition of the Virgin Mary.Th...

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Published in:Ciencias sociales y religión
Subtitles:The Pity Fairies and the Salem Witches
Main Author: Almeida, Tânia Mara Campos de (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:Portuguese
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Published: Asociación de Cientistas Sociales de la Religión del Mercosur 2005
In: Ciencias sociales y religión
Year: 2005, Volume: 7, Issue: 7, Pages: 39-48
Further subjects:B Puritanism and social transformations
B Marianism
B Supernatural visions
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Summary:How can two religious phenomena, motivated and sustained bysupernatural visions of children and adolescents result in totally diametricallydifferent personal and social transformations? One of the phenomena studied ispart of the Brazilian Catholicism and refers to an apparition of the Virgin Mary.The other phenomenon, the puritan inquisition, reveals an American religiousdynamic very common in the 17th Century. The inquisition caused many peopleto die and promoted significant changes in the lives of the people involved and intheir communities. Besides comparing these two phenomena, the author’s purposewas also to show the richness of these episodes, without surrendering tointerpretations which are excessively psychological and sociological, and which arenot sensible to the transcendent’s experience of life.
ISSN:1982-2650
Contains:Enthalten in: Ciencias sociales y religión
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.22456/1982-2650.2276