The magazine spiritualist The Reformer and the internet

• Grant number: 08/07093-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: January 01, 2009
• End date: December 31, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Ivan Esperança Rocha
• Grantee: Mateus Ibanhi Pires
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

It intends to identify which discursive strategies that the Spiritism is been worth to elaborate and to organize the main themes of its religious messages, so much driven its followers as the one publishes wider. For so much, the project chooses as main source of information the magazine The Reformer, published under the form printed since 1883. The hypothesis is that there was change in its content since the year 2005, when it started to be also available in the Internet. (AU)