Univ. Federal de Pernambuco, Diss.--Recife, 2002.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Texas at Dallas, 2007. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-75)

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, November, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

While few would deny America is the most powerful nation on earth, there is considerable debate, and controversy, over how America uses its foreign policy power. This is even truer since the “unipolar moment,” when America gained sole superpower status with the end of the Soviet Union and the Cold War. In the Cold War Reinhold Niebuhr was the main theological voice speaking to American power. In the Unipolar world, the Religious right emerged as the main theological voice, but instead of seeking to curb American power the Religious right embraced Neoconservatism in what I will call “Totemic Conservatism” to support use of America's power in the world and to triumph Manifest destiny in American foreign policy, which is the notion that America is a chosen nation, and this legitimizes its use of power and underpins its moral claims. I critique the Niebuhrian and Religious right legacies, and offer a classical realist strategy for theology to speak to America power and foreign policy, which avoids the neoconservative and religious conservative error of totemism, while avoiding the jettisoning of Niebuhr's theology by political liberals, and, the political ghettoizing of theology by his chief critics. This strategy is based on embracing the understanding of classical realism, but not taking the next step, which both Niebuhr and neoconservativism ultimately do, of moving from a prescriptive to a predictive strategy for American foreign policy. In this thesis, I argue that in the wake of the unipolar moment the embrace of the Religious right of Neoconservatism to triumph Manifest destiny in American foreign policy is a problematic commingling of faith and politics, and what is needed instead is a strategy of speaking to power rooted in classical realism but one which refines Niebuhrian realism to avoid the risk of progressing a Constantinian theology.

Este trabalho de pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo um beato alagoano chamado Antônio Fernandes Amorim, o Beato franciscano. Seu aparecimento, em 1936, no sertão alagoano se deu logo após a morte do Padre Cícero Romão Batista, no Ceará. Pretende-se abordar: sua peregrinação até ele se instalar em Serra Grande, município de Quebrangulo-AL, onde nasceu um povoamento à sua volta; a perseguição política e religiosa que sofreu; como ele se insere na tradição dos movimentos messiânico-religiosos do Nordeste brasileiro: suas semelhanças e diferenças. Pretende-se também discutir a questão da sucessão na sua função de líder da comunidade religiosa que se formou em torno dele; o seu assassinato se dá em 30 de julho de 1954 e depois da sua morte a Igreja intervém na Vila Serra Grande e os Frades Capuchinhos assumem a administração do Orfanato e da Capela. Para obtenção dos dados foram utilizadas pesquisas bibliográficas, análises documentais e entrevistas com pessoas que testemunharam os fatos pesquisados. / This present research has as its study object a devotee from the state of Alagoas, called Antonio Fernandes Amorim, "The Franciscan Devotee. His appearing, in 1936, in the Alagoas hinterland happened soon after the death of the priest Cícero Romão Batista, in Ceará. It is intended to cover his pilgrimage until he settled in Serra Grande, in the municipality of Quebrangulo - Alagoas, where a settlement soon appeared around him;the political and religious persecution he suffered; the way he fits in the traditional messianic-religious in the northeast of Brazil, its similarities and differences. It is intended, as well, to discuss the succession of his leading position in the religious community created around him; on 30th of July 1954 he was assassinated and after his death, the church intervenes in Serra Grande Village and the Capuchins Friars take over the direction of both the orphanage and the chapel. To obtain the data, there were used bibliographical research, documental analysis, as well as, interviews with local people, who witnessed the facts researched.

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