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Valley of the Dawn

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The Valley of Dawn is a very syncretic mediunic religion whose doctrinal and liturgical characteristics are influenced by various cultural matrices, highlighting the Kardecism, Umbanda, Catholicism, and the New Age. It centers on the articulation conducted between the elements in popular religions in Brazil and other countries from a globalized culture (Oliveira 2014b), so for a better understanding of this phenomenon it is necessary to consider the idiosyncrasies of the Brazilian religious field and elements from the rest of the world. Its adherents believe in reincarnation and karma, beyond the existence of life on other planets (Hayes 2013), and they tend to deny that the Valley of Dawn can be considered a religion − rather that it is a doctrine − yet they claim to be Christians.

Introduction

Historically, the Valley of Dawn began to develop in the 1950s by the charismatic figure of Neiva Chavez Zelaya (1925–1985), better known as “Tia Neiva,” in Planaltina, a satellite...

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  1. Department of Sociology and Political Science, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Campus Universitário Reitor João David Ferreira Lima, 88040-900, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Amurabi Oliveira

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  1. Sociology/Anthropology, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA

    Henri P. P. Gooren

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Oliveira, A. (2015). Valley of the Dawn. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_90-1

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