Habiter Belo Monte, éphémère communauté chrétienne dans le sertão de Canudos (Brésil, 1893‑1897)
Canudos, alias Belo Monte, is the name of a peasant community that had a brief but intense life in the remote sertões of Bahia. Founded in 1893 by a lay preacher, the city was completely destroyed after the victory of the Republican armies in October 1897. If the sources on the side of the “defeated...
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Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine
2023-10-01
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| Series: | L'Ordinaire des Amériques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/orda/9751 |
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| Summary: | Canudos, alias Belo Monte, is the name of a peasant community that had a brief but intense life in the remote sertões of Bahia. Founded in 1893 by a lay preacher, the city was completely destroyed after the victory of the Republican armies in October 1897. If the sources on the side of the “defeated” are missing, some documents and the oral memory of the survivors allow us to reconstitute what “living in Belo Monte” meant at that time, in its material, social, religious and cultural dimensions. In addition to the question of housing, which was crucial in this “new town”, living in Belo Monte was above all a choice of life, an endorsement of a communal experience based on the sacred, in opposition with the secular republic and the process of colonization that had been going on since the independence of Brazil (1822) in these remote and reputedly poor regions of the country. |
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| ISSN: | 2273-0095 |