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Transnational Mediumship and the Development of a Transhistorical Self in the Vale Do Amanhecer

open access: yesSocial Compass, 2021
The mediumistic practices of the Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) are spreading transnationally through migration and spiritual tourism. This article illustrates the mediums’ circulation between Brazil and Europe, how they forge sacred spaces and mediumistic bodies, and the challenges of translation of the ...
Emily Pierini
exaly   +4 more sources

Healing and Therapeutic Trajectories Among the Spirit Mediums of the Brazilian Vale Do Amanhecer

open access: yesInternational Journal of Latin American Religions, 2018
The temples of the Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) in Brazil and across the world are intended as “spiritual emergency units” where mediums and their spirit guides provide patients with free assistance for health, relational, spiritual, and material matters concerning the person’s wellbeing.
Emily Pierini
exaly   +4 more sources

Becoming a Jaguar: Spiritual Routes in the Vale Do Amanhecer

2017
This chapter addresses the rapidly expanding Ordem Espiritualista Cristã Vale do Amanhecer (Spiritualist Christian Order Valley of the Dawn) considering its position within a context of intense mobility of people across religions. The main temple near Brasília comprises a spiritual town inhabited by a community of spirit mediums.
Emily Pierini
exaly   +3 more sources

Becoming a Spirit Medium: Initiatory Learning and the Self in the Vale do Amanhecer

open access: yesEthnos, 2014
ABSTRACTDrawing on ethnographic data from the Brazilian mediumistic religion known as Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn), this article addresses the learning process at the core of mediumistic development. The process of learning is here approached as a multi-layered experience, which is embodied, intuitive, performative, conceptual and inter ...
Emily Pierini
openaire   +2 more sources

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