CIDADE ECLÉTICA: MESSIANISMO, CARISMA E ROTINIZAÇÃO

Abstract

The Ecletic City is about 10 kilometers from Santo Antônio do Descoberto s city, state of Goiás, it was builded by a group of people coming from Rio de Janeiro, in 1956, who wanted to join a kind of religion that preachs the end of the world. A leader, Yokaanam, that believed to be the reincarnation of John the Baptist, had spiritual guides that helped him to guide the group, he caused polemic in Rio de Janeiro, and after this, peaceful, he received people from Brasilia and neighbourhood to mental and corporal cures. This moviment had been two thesis of doctor degree and one dissertation of mastership s main purpose and was considered by those researches a messianic moviment, but just while the leader was alive. In 1985, with his death, the moviment lost the enchantment, attracting less people than olden days. That s the main purpose of this dissertation. The main purpose is verify if the moviment may be considered messianic after Yokaanam s death. The dissertation try to expose a historic vision of the group and after this it resumes the main thesis and dissertation s ideas, and finally following Weber s concepts about Carism and Routinization, it constructs arguments to answer his own hypothesis. The data colect for the dissertation was done based on the two thesis and the dissertation, on the city journal Our, mountly published, and on local research, sistematic observation, interviews and short questionaries applied. In the end, the dissertation proves, based on the Weber s theory parameters, that the Yokaanam s moviment, today, doesn t seems to be messianic, because some basic characteristics of this moviment, like the founder carism, may be pondered like something that should be latent, his dinamism should be activated if the formal administration elect a new leader who was recognized by all the followers as Yokaanam s reincarnation, and this possibility isn t null, because there s an element of the group that is the kardecist creed of the reincarnation.