Transgressores da ordem e dos bons costumes: os adeptos das práticas mágico-religiosas segundo as páginas sensacionalistas do jornal A Capital, 1912-1930

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Francisco, Henrique Sugahara
• Orientador(a): Sant'Anna, Denise Bernuzzi de
• 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 Estudos Pós-Graduados em História
• Departamento: História
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Modernização da cidade de São Paulo; Práticas mágico-religiosas; Sensacionalismo; Espiritismo; Ocultismo; Jornal A Capital
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Modernization of the city of São Paulo; Magic-religious practices; Sensationalism; Spiritism; Occultism
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12658

The aim of this research is to analyze, in the context of the modernization of the city of São Paulo, the representations of the magic practitioners in the sensationalist news and in the faits divers of the melodramatic newspaper A Capital. In the view of the publication, these characters represented a setback on the way of civilization and were immoral per excellence. Witches, faith healers, fake mediums and cartomancers underwent a process of disqualification, being represented as highly dangerous people. On the other hand, spiritists and occultists, due the fact that they based their practices on scientific, rational and philosophic principles, were praised by the newspaper as people who were able to regenerate society by spreading values that should be embodied by the people of Brazil and São Paulo, such as erudition, highly moral, solidarity and religious feeling in the direction of humanitarianism