Nomadism in Antonio Vieira: from the sacred to the secular

Abstract

The life and work of the Jesuit Antonio Vieira are integrated in such a way that reflect the zeitgeist of the Luso-Brazilian speaker-writer. Transition time, of significant and contrasting changes in the European mentality, so that Vieira, placed in the center of these tensions, as a preacher in the service of the Catholic Counter-Reformation, could only express how he did it, characterized as a kind of “nomadic” with metaphysical resonances that define his way of being and acting.