Do paraíso terrestre à Nova Akhetaton: misticismo e política na construção de Brasília (1955 – 1990)

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2021-12-20

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Universidade Federal de Goiás

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This study attempts to solve multiple and intricate phenomens that, historically, have been making Brasilia a mystical city. In it, it is possible to see how elements of a mystical nature engendered the policial plot of the history of the new Brazilian capital, with the writings of Dom Bosco, considered prophetic, the starting point of such mystical representations. A project considered audacious for its time, such as the construction of a new capital of an extensive country, migrating it to the interior of the territory, needed to legitimize itself. In this sense, the prophetic character of Don Bosco’s writings was preponderant, since Brazil in the fifties had a mostly catholic population, wich is whay the city had its spiritual baptism in 1957 under the mantle of the Catholic Church. During the research, it was possible to see that Juscelino Kubitschek maintained close relationships with several groups called mystics or esoterics, wich leads me to infer that the president outlined a more plural religious tendency than historiography has been able to show. To investigate this and other mystical phenomena involved in the construction of Brasilia, I concentrated my field research within four institutions present in the Federal District: Vale do Amanhecer, Legião da Boa Vontade, Maçonaria e Eubiose. These institutions, in particular, from the beginnings of the construction of Brasilia, continued to give materiality to the mystical character of the capital, also becoming importante tourist centers. Seeking to understand the mystical representations and images present in Brasilia from the sociological approach called “multiple modernities”, I recognize the religious character of modernity, less as an inhibitory factor of religious opportunities and more as a mechanism of potentiation and promotion of dialogues between tradition and new religiosities. Thus, this research seeks to trace, between the years 1955 to 1990, the contiguous presence of four historical landscapes in Brasilia: The first named Earthly Paradise; the second, the Promised Land; the third, the Capital of the Third Millennium; and the fourth, the New Akhetaton.

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FIUNE, P. S. Do paraíso terrestre à Nova Akhetaton: misticismo e política na construção de Brasília (1955 – 1990). 2021. 311 f. Tese (Doutorado em de História) - Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2021.