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Spiritism not only a reality in urban areas but also a “potent metaphor for the perceived capriciousness of urban experience.”¹

Padre Cicero, resistance to RCC hierarchy, ultimate symbol of the present-day interior.²

Images of Padre Cicero in terreiros, spirit invoked in ceremonies.³

Amongst the 20,000 of the community being researched, 2 per cent identify themselves as spiritist or ABR adherent, but 30 per cent have participated in terreiro activities.⁴

Stories representing Padre Cicero as a medium or claiming that his spirit communicates through mediuns.⁵

Stories telling of opposition between Padre Cicero and ABR religion, often in the form of curses and punishment.⁶

Pentecostal rejection of Padre Cicero devotion.⁷

Padre Cicero devotion: fidelityreward; infidelitypunishment (605-606)⁸

1C Slater, ‘A Backlands Saint in the Big City: Urban Transformations of the Padre Cicero Tales’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 33:3 (1991), 588-610, 589.

2 C Slater, ‘A Backlands Saint in the Big City: Urban Transformations of the Padre Cicero Tales’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 33:3 (1991), 588-610, 589-590.

3 C Slater, ‘A Backlands Saint in the Big City: Urban Transformations of the Padre Cicero Tales’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 33:3 (1991), 588-610, 592.

4 C Slater, ‘A Backlands Saint in the Big City: Urban Transformations of the Padre Cicero Tales’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 33:3 (1991), 588-610, 593.

5 C Slater, ‘A Backlands Saint in the Big City: Urban Transformations of the Padre Cicero Tales’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 33:3 (1991), 588-610, 593–600.

6 C Slater, ‘A Backlands Saint in the Big City: Urban Transformations of the Padre Cicero Tales’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 33:3 (1991), 588-610, 600–604.

7 C Slater, ‘A Backlands Saint in the Big City: Urban Transformations of the Padre Cicero Tales’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 33:3 (1991), 588-610, 605.

8 C Slater, ‘A Backlands Saint in the Big City: Urban Transformations of the Padre Cicero Tales’ Comparative Studies in Society and History, 33:3 (1991), 588-610, 605–606.