Kelly E Hayes
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1373417 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kelly E Hayes |
| PRENOMES | Kelly E |
| SOBRENOME | Hayes |
| ASSINATURA | HAYES K E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5045-9695 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Vodou en Vogue
Prisoners and Debt Collectors
This article examines how Brazil's Valley of the Dawn religious movement created an innovative ritual practice called the prisão (prison) that adapts elements of state legal systems while operating within a fundamentally different understanding of justice. Drawing on ethnographic data, I demonstrate how this ritual incorporates familiar aspects of state legal proceedings – formal roles, staged testimony, and ritualised judgements – and reframes t…
Imagined utopias
This article considers how seeing Brasília and the Valley of the Dawn, two different utopian visions in Brazil, as transitional objects might help us see something new about each. Where Brasília ended up reproducing the same inequities its planners sought to eradicate, the Valley offers its members an orderly world structured by the principles of equality and justice, in which all can evolve through hard work and merit. The Valley models the prog…
Esoteric Economies
This article introduces the concept of "esoteric economies" to analyze how sacrificial practices in Brazil and Senegal embody alternative economic logics that coexist alongside market capitalism. Through a comparative ethnographic study of Afro-Brazilian religious practices and Senegalese divinatory rituals, the authors demonstrate how these ritual systems encode and enact different logics of exchange that prioritize long-term reciprocity, mutual…
Liquid Light
Western Esotericism in Brazil
The Brazilian religion known as the Valley of the Dawn is an international new religious movement known for its eclectic cosmology and collective rituals performed by adepts dressed in ornate garments. Headquartered outside of Brasília, the Valley of the Dawn was founded in the 1960s by Neiva Chaves Zelaya (1925–85) a clairvoyant medium affectionately referred to as Aunt Neiva. This article highlights the work of Mário Sassi (1921–94) and the sig…
Holy Harlots
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human worl…
Where Men Are Knights and Women Are Princesses
This chapter examines the role of gender in the Valley of Dawn, a New Age movement headquartered in Brazil with a growing international presence. Known for its eclectic cosmology and collective rituals performed by adepts dressed in ornate garments, the Valley proposes that men and women embody complementary energetic forces that, when harmonized, promote spiritual evolution on the individual and cosmic levels. However, despite the Valley’s rheto…
Intergalactic Space-Time Travelers
The Valley of the Dawn (Vale do Amanhecer) is a new Brazilian religion known for its creative synthesis of elements drawn from a diverse range of cultural and national contexts. This article considers the Valley as an example of the interrelations between religion and globalization, exploring how conceptual changes associated with contemporary processes of globalization such as time-space compression and deterritorialization function as structuri…
Teaching and Learning about Africana Religions through Multimedia
The centrality of the visual, experiential, sensory, and performative in African and African diasporic religions practically demands that educators incorporate multimedia resources when teaching about these religions, especially to undergraduate populations that may have very little personal experience with peoples of African descent. While older technologies like documentary film and video are important resources, new digital technologies and in…
Holy HarlotsFemininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human worl…
Escrava Anastácia
This article describes the transformation of an image depicting an unnamed, enslaved African man wearing a metal facemask, a common form of punishment in colonial Brazil, into the iconic representation of the martyred slave Anastácia/Anastasia, the focus of a growing religious and political movement in Brazil. The authors trace the image to an early 19th century engraving based on a drawing by the Frenchman Jacques Arago. Well over a century late…
Diaspora Conversions
Journal Article Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa. By Paul Christopher Johnson Get access Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa. By Paul Christopher Johnson University of California Press, 2007. 330 pages. $24.95. Kelly E. Hayes Kelly E. Hayes Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Wicked Women and Femmes Fatales
Macumba Has Invaded All Spheres
Every New Year's Eve in Rio de Janeiro, hundreds of Cariocas1 dressed head-to-toe in white converge along miles of city beachfront to honor Yemanjá, the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea. From the moment the last rays of the sun dissolve into the horizon until they crest again the following dawn, small, autonomous groups migrate to the beach bearing flowers, candles, food, and drink. They come to praise and petition the sea goddess, into whose wa…
Black Magic and the Academy
Caught In The Crossfire
Academic studies of spirit possession have tended to focus on the psychological, social or instrumental dimensions of the trance state, placing interpretative emphasis on the resolution of internal conflicts arising from the social and/or psychological limitations faced by the individual. Such an interpretative approach collapses the careful distinctions that devotees make between their own activities and desires, and those of their possessing sp…
Voices of the Magi
Deeply into the Bone
A Refuge in Thunder
Sacred Possessions
Holy Harlots
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human worl…
Wicked Women and Femmes Fatales
Black Magic and the Academy
Caught In The Crossfire
Academic studies of spirit possession have tended to focus on the psychological, social or instrumental dimensions of the trance state, placing interpretative emphasis on the resolution of internal conflicts arising from the social and/or psychological limitations faced by the individual. Such an interpretative approach collapses the careful distinctions that devotees make between their own activities and desires, and those of their possessing sp…
Sacred Possessions
A Refuge in Thunder
Deeply into the Bone
Voices of the Magi
Caught In The Crossfire
Academic studies of spirit possession have tended to focus on the psychological, social or instrumental dimensions of the trance state, placing interpretative emphasis on the resolution of internal conflicts arising from the social and/or psychological limitations faced by the individual. Such an interpretative approach collapses the careful distinctions that devotees make between their own activities and desires, and those of their possessing sp…
Macumba Has Invaded All Spheres
Every New Year's Eve in Rio de Janeiro, hundreds of Cariocas1 dressed head-to-toe in white converge along miles of city beachfront to honor Yemanjá, the Afro-Brazilian goddess of the sea. From the moment the last rays of the sun dissolve into the horizon until they crest again the following dawn, small, autonomous groups migrate to the beach bearing flowers, candles, food, and drink. They come to praise and petition the sea goddess, into whose wa…
Black Magic and the Academy
Diaspora Conversions
Journal Article Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa. By Paul Christopher Johnson Get access Diaspora Conversions: Black Carib Religion and the Recovery of Africa. By Paul Christopher Johnson University of California Press, 2007. 330 pages. $24.95. Kelly E. Hayes Kelly E. Hayes Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
Wicked Women and Femmes Fatales
Escrava Anastácia
This article describes the transformation of an image depicting an unnamed, enslaved African man wearing a metal facemask, a common form of punishment in colonial Brazil, into the iconic representation of the martyred slave Anastácia/Anastasia, the focus of a growing religious and political movement in Brazil. The authors trace the image to an early 19th century engraving based on a drawing by the Frenchman Jacques Arago. Well over a century late…
Holy HarlotsFemininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human worl…
Intergalactic Space-Time Travelers
The Valley of the Dawn (Vale do Amanhecer) is a new Brazilian religion known for its creative synthesis of elements drawn from a diverse range of cultural and national contexts. This article considers the Valley as an example of the interrelations between religion and globalization, exploring how conceptual changes associated with contemporary processes of globalization such as time-space compression and deterritorialization function as structuri…
Teaching and Learning about Africana Religions through Multimedia
The centrality of the visual, experiential, sensory, and performative in African and African diasporic religions practically demands that educators incorporate multimedia resources when teaching about these religions, especially to undergraduate populations that may have very little personal experience with peoples of African descent. While older technologies like documentary film and video are important resources, new digital technologies and in…
Where Men Are Knights and Women Are Princesses
This chapter examines the role of gender in the Valley of Dawn, a New Age movement headquartered in Brazil with a growing international presence. Known for its eclectic cosmology and collective rituals performed by adepts dressed in ornate garments, the Valley proposes that men and women embody complementary energetic forces that, when harmonized, promote spiritual evolution on the individual and cosmic levels. However, despite the Valley’s rheto…
Holy Harlots
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human worl…
Western Esotericism in Brazil
The Brazilian religion known as the Valley of the Dawn is an international new religious movement known for its eclectic cosmology and collective rituals performed by adepts dressed in ornate garments. Headquartered outside of Brasília, the Valley of the Dawn was founded in the 1960s by Neiva Chaves Zelaya (1925–85) a clairvoyant medium affectionately referred to as Aunt Neiva. This article highlights the work of Mário Sassi (1921–94) and the sig…
Liquid Light
Prisoners and Debt Collectors
This article examines how Brazil's Valley of the Dawn religious movement created an innovative ritual practice called the prisão (prison) that adapts elements of state legal systems while operating within a fundamentally different understanding of justice. Drawing on ethnographic data, I demonstrate how this ritual incorporates familiar aspects of state legal proceedings – formal roles, staged testimony, and ritualised judgements – and reframes t…
Imagined utopias
This article considers how seeing Brasília and the Valley of the Dawn, two different utopian visions in Brazil, as transitional objects might help us see something new about each. Where Brasília ended up reproducing the same inequities its planners sought to eradicate, the Valley offers its members an orderly world structured by the principles of equality and justice, in which all can evolve through hard work and merit. The Valley models the prog…
Esoteric Economies
This article introduces the concept of "esoteric economies" to analyze how sacrificial practices in Brazil and Senegal embody alternative economic logics that coexist alongside market capitalism. Through a comparative ethnographic study of Afro-Brazilian religious practices and Senegalese divinatory rituals, the authors demonstrate how these ritual systems encode and enact different logics of exchange that prioritize long-term reciprocity, mutual…
Vodou en Vogue
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