Esoterismo ocidental e nova era: a tradição inventada presente na trajetória da Antiga e Mística Ordem Rosacruz (AMORC) no Recife/PE (1959-1981)

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Sampaio, Diego Chaves Ramos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; História; Programa de Pós-Graduação em História; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Esoterismo ocidental; Nova Era; Ordem Rosacruz (AMORC); Tradição inventada; Western esotericism; New Age; Order Rosicrucian (AMORC); Invented tradition; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/20304

This dissertation analyzed the invented tradition present in the trajectory of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosicrucian (AMORC) in the city of Recife, during the time period from 1959 to 1981. This period covered the foundation of the group, in the name of Pronaos (1959), its elevation to Chapter (1962) and expansion to the Lodge (1971). We can say that the consolidation of AMORC in Capital Pernambucana took place between 1971 and 1980, a time of intense activities when compared to previous periods. We consider it important to approach the Cultural History of Religions in the understanding of Agnolin, Carlos André Silva, Elaine Moura and Benatte to analyze the religious phenomenon, as we understand Religion as a cultural product of its time. The period covered in this research is related to the Counterculture movement, started in the 1960s by young people who criticized the current moral values. Such questions reflected in spirituality, in the search for explanations outside the Judeo-Christian religions. This phenomenon when reaching the spiritual field is understood by the historians of Esoterism as a New Age movement, whose context brought social actors into contact with esoteric ideas disseminated in books, music and in excerpts from newspapers. We see AMORC as a group linked to Western Esotericism, which is defined as a tradition of thoughts present in the West since the Renaissance period. This research leads us to understand how the New Age favored the spread of Esoterism, contributing to influence the expansion of AMORC. It was confirmed through this dissertation that AMORC sought to legitimize its teachings through its “traditional origin”, which alludes to civilizations and events with which, according to its belief, it maintained links. In presenting herself in this way, she tried to distinguish herself from other esoteric orders due to the authenticity with which she claimed to transmit knowledge about Esoterism and Rosicrucianism. We face this fact through the understanding of E. Hobsbawm as an Invention of Tradition, where our work identified the present elements of this Tradition Invented by AMORC during your trajectory in the city of Recife, like festivities related to Ancient Egypt, such as the Feast of Pyramid and the New Year Rosacruz, as well as lectures, social events and advertisements in the newspapers. Our theoretical framework in E. Hobsbawm also contextualized cultural changes in the 1960s-81, as well as the works of Amauri Pereira, Magnólia Silva and Silas Guerriero that allowed us to understand the New Era and its presence in Brazilian territory. The understanding of Western Esotericism was based on the views of Antoine Faivre and Hanegraaff. Our methodology was based on the crossing of private documentation, available in the current Store Recife - involving meeting minutes, annual reports, letters, photographs - to the periodicals available in the Digital Library of the National Library, specifically, the diary of Pernambuco. We highlight the originality of the documentation worked on in this research, which had never been exposed academically, but which is now available as an attachment at the end of this dissertation to instigate new research on the topic.