The Mystic of Friendship: Divining the Present in Settler Amazonia - Class 200: New Studies in Religion - Dr. Ashley Lebner - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226845753 - December 15, 2025
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Dr. Ashley Lebner
The Mystic of Friendship: Divining the Present in Settler Amazonia - Class 200: New Studies in Religion

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A vivid portrait of how divine and human intimacies sustain colonization in the Amazon.   On Brazil’s Amazonian frontier, settlers pursue land and opportunity, but they also gather for prayer and pilgrimage, yearning for a deep relationship with God and one another. In this book, anthropologist Ashley Lebner examines how everyday religious practices and feelings, what she calls a mystic of friendship, shape and sustain colonization in the Amazon.

Lebner invites us to a stretch of highway in Pará, Brazil, where violent colonization coexists with prophetic dreams, Afro-Brazilian prayers, and emerging evangelicalism. She shows how, amid political tensions and physical hardship, settlers believe that the violence they experience and enact derives from the bestial nature of earthly life that must be overcome. In exposing a desire for divinely-infused friendship that animates colonization, Lebner offers a powerful new perspective on the forces driving colonialism as much as religious and political expression.

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Released December 15, 2025
ISBN13 9780226845753
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 30 mm   ·   589 g

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