Visions, Prophecies and Divinations

Download or read book Visions, Prophecies and Divinations written by Ana Paula Torres and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions, Prophecies and Divinations is an introduction to the vast and complex phenomena of prophecy and vision in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. This book is dedicated to the study of the millenarian and messianic movements in the early modern Iberian world, and it is one of the first collections of essays on the subject to be published in English. The ten chapters range from the analysis of Mesoamerican and South American indigenous prophetical beliefs to the intellectual history of the Luso-Brazilian Jesuit Antônio Vieira and his project of a Fifth Empire, passing through new approaches to the long-lasting Sebastianist belief and its political implications.