Espiritismo transnacional: poder, habitus e mitopráxis na configuração religiosa brasileira em décadas de perseguições

• Ano de defesa: 2026
• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro Júnior, Adair
• Orientador(a): Stern, Fábio Leandro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Religião
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Allan Kardec; Espiritismo; História do espiritismo; Kardecismo; Spiritisme
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Allan Kardec; Spiritism; History of spiritism; Kardecism; Spiritisme
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/46703

The study investigates the emergence of Spiritism in France in the mid-19th century, its arrival and development in Brazil, seeking to identify the main causes that led to its characterization and institutional consolidation as a new religion in the Brazilian religious field. To achieve these objectives, the research drew on documentation from various repositories, analyzing it using historical methodology, with due critical analysis of primary and secondary sources and interpretation of evidence for the construction of historical narratives and events. The documentary stitching was done through an integrative bib7iographic review anchored in the "field theory" of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. We also made use of the thinking of American anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, for whom culture should be understood as a set of symbolic structures and systems, put into practice by agents and confronted with new circumstances influenced by mythopraxis. The research confirmed our working hypotheses about the events that articulated and interacted to institutionalize the new Spiritist religionF religious atavisms and Catholic habits that acted in synergy with the ideas present in Jean Baptiste Roustaing’s French work The Four Gospels; the resistance imposed by the Catholic Church; the criminalization of Spiritist practices in 1890, combined with the scientific status quo, reflected by medical entities in the persecution by public health authorities; and the symbolic figure of the charismatic medium Chico Xavier and his literary production, responsible for popularizing a model specific to Spiritism in Brazil and which contributed to the removal of characteristics present in its French origins