O Santo que pecou e a chuva que não veio : Uma análise socioantropológica do movimento messiânico-milenarista, Borboletas Azuis

Abstract

This work intends to analyze the religious group "Borboletas Azuis" of Campina Grande / PB, featuring him as a messianic-millenarian movement that achieved international recognition for developing a proposal for criticism of changes occurred in Roman Catholicism after Vatican II, formulating a conservative and radical new proposal who intended to retake practices of primitive Christianity. Addition to merging elements of popular Catholicism and spiritism Kardecist of mesa branca , the movement traces a new religious proposal, 'bricolada', in which the prophecy of a new world free of oppression and social inequality emerged with the advent of a universal flood, scheduled for May 13, 1980. We present the movement from its origins until the present, exhibiting a report of its foundation, period of apogee, gradual cooling after the non-event of the flood, and also, evaluated the actual configuration of the movement. Catholic and spiritualist influences that configured the movement and its leaders are analyzed with the main focus on the founder and leader, Roldão Mangueira de Figueiredo and his principal assistants who have been part from the administrative setting. The succession of leadership by Antonio de França, Helena Diniz, Maria Tereza and the active presence of Luciene Diniz, bringing fundamental prophecies for mediatic projection and numerical growth of the group. We interviewed descendants of the founder of the movement and remnants persons who attended in the past, the Casa de Caridade Jesus no Horto in search of spiritual answers. We employ theorists like: Maria Isaura de Queiroz, Max Weber, Peter Berger, Emile Durkheim, Mircea Eliade, Rudolf Otto, Joseph Campbell, well as researches of Lysias Nogueira Negrão, Moacir Carneiro and Lidiane Araújo. Furthermore, we had access to files of local newspapers and letters written by leaders who are used as a basis for the analysis of movement and its leader board.