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9 août 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.pul.10809
- isbn: 9782729704940
- eisbn: 9782729710385
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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religion spiritualité ésotérisme occultisme spiritisme magie mystique Nouvel Age Religion Sociology SOC039000 JFSRSujets proches
Poems Legends and stories Novels Stories Religion, Primitive Poetry--Philosophy Poems Verses (Poetry) Novels Fiction--Plots Dramatic plots Drama--Plot Scenarios Novels Novellas (Short novels) Fiction--Philosophy Metafiction Stories Religion and ethicsCiter ce document
Marion Aubrée, « De l’histoire au mythe la dynamique des romans spirites au Brésil », Presses universitaires de Lyon, ID : 10.4000/books.pul.10809
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This article presents the Brazilian dynamics of one of those so-called paranormal phenomena which can be observed among the followers of spiritualism: «psychography» or automatic writing. Such production of personal messages, medical prescriptions, moralizing treatises and, also, poems and novels, is said to be directly inspired through the «medium-channel» by the Spirits – i.e. the souls of the dead - who are supposed to communicate with the living by this and other means.After a brief historical introduction about the origins of that phenomenon in the neo-spiritualist (USA) and Kardecist ((France and Brazil) context, the author analyses particularly the large mediumnic literature (novels and poetry)) produced in Brazil during the last decades and its participation in the construction of Brazilian social imaginary. She points out how, through a mythification of history and its characters, this corpus enables the adepts of this credo (6 to 7 million Brazilians) to find some coherent though arbitrary explanations for the difficulties of all kinds which beset their country.