O casamento entre o céu e a terra

by Leonardo Boff

Uma viagem pelas histórias originárias das cores dos peixes e das vozes dos pássaros, da mandioca, do guaraná, das estrelas e do amor. Em  O casamento entre o Céu e a Terra , o professor, teólogo, filósofo, escritor e grande defensor dos Direitos Humanos Leonardo Boff reúne histórias, relatos e mitos originários dos indígenas do Brasil. Recolhidas ao longo dos anos e vindas de diversas etnias, essas narrativas são prova da inestimável contribuição desses povos a nossa cultura, nossa língua, nossos costumes e nossa forma de compreender a natureza. Cada uma delas é capaz de nos conectar à sabedoria ancestral desses povos e somá-la, enfim, a nossa sabedoria contemporânea. "O livro que agora está em suas mãos, caro leitor, cara leitora, é um importante instrumento para apresentar-lhe a visão indígena de interagir com a natureza. [...] Leonardo Boff, usando seu jeito amoroso, vai nos conduzindo pelas narrativas apresentadas para nos proporcionar um olhar crítico, mas também repleto de magia, que ainda alimenta a vida de nossos povos originários."  – Daniel Munduruku "Revisitemos a sabedoria indígena e sonhemos, por um momento, os mesmos sonhos que eles sonharam. Vamos rir, chorar e aprender. Aprender especialmente como casar Céu e Terra, vale dizer, como combinar o cotidiano com o surpreendente, a imanência opaca dos dias com a transcendência radiosa do espírito, a vida na plena liberdade com a morte como um unir-se com os ancestrais, a felicidade discreta nesse neste mundo com a grande promessa na eternidade. E, no termo, teremos descoberto mil razões para viver mais e melhor, todos juntos, como uma grande família, na mesma Aldeia Comum, generosa e bela, o planeta Terra."  – Leonardo Boff

98 pages

First published July 25, 2022

About the author

Leonardo Boff, born as Genézio Darci Boff, in Concórdia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, on the December 14, 1938. He is the grandson of Italian immigrants from the region of Veneto who came to Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the final part of the nineteenth century. He received his primary and secondary education in Concórdia - Santa Catarina, Rio Negro - Paraná, and Agudos - São Paulo. He studied Philosophy in Curitiba - Paraná and Theology in Petrópolis - Rio de Janeiro. He joined the Order of the Franciscan Friars Minor in 1959 and received his doctorate in Philosophy and Theology from the University of Munich - Germany, in 1970.
For 22 years he was the professor of Systematic and Ecumenical Theology at the Franciscan Theological Institute in Petrópolis. He has served as a professor of Theology and Spirituality in various centers of higher learning and universities in Brazil and the rest of the world, in addition to being a visiting professor at the universities of Lisbon (Portugal), Salamanca (Spain), Harvard (United States), Basel (Switzerland), and Heidelberg (Germany).
He was present in the first reflections that sought to articulate indignance toward misery and marginalization with discourse, which later generated the Christian faith known as Liberation Theology. He has always been an ardent of the Human Rights cause, helping to formulate a new, Latin American perspective on Human Rights with, “Rights to Life and the ways to maintain them with dignity.”
He has received honorary doctorates, in Politics from the University of Turin (Italy) and in Theology for the University of Lund (Sweden). He has also been honored with various awards, within Brazil and the rest of the world, for his struggles on behalf of the weak, the oppressed and marginalized, and Human Rights.
From 1970 until 1985 he participated in the editorial council of Editora Vozes. During this time he participated in the coordination and publication of the collection, “Theology and Liberation” and the entire edition of the works of C. G. Jung. He was Editor-in-chief of “Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira” from 1970 to 1984, of “Revista de Cultura Vozes” from 1984 to 1992, and of “Revista Internacional Concilium” from 1970 to 1995.
In 1984, he was submitted to a process by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, former Holy Office, in the Vatican. This was due to his theses linked to liberation theology exposed in his book "Church: Charism and Power. In 1985 he was condemned to “obsequious silence” and was removed from his editorial functions and suspended from religious duties. Due to international pressure on the Vatican, the decision was repealed in 1986, allowing him to return to some of his previous activities.
In 1992, under renewed threats of a second punitive action by authorities in Rome, he renounced his activities as a priest and ‘promoted himself the state of laity.’ “I changed trenches to continue the same fight.” He continues as a liberation theologian, writer, professor, widely hear conference speaker in Brazil among other countries, also as an adviser of social movements of liberating popular matrix, as the Landless Movement and the Base Ecclesial Communities (CEBs), between others.
In 1993 he was selected as professor of Ethics, Philosophy of Religion and Ecology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).
On December 8, 2001 he was honored with the alternative Nobel prize, “Right Livelihood Award” in Stockholm, Sweden.
He presently lives in Jardim Araras, an ecological wilderness area on the municipality of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. He shares his life and dreams with the defender/educator of Human Rights from a new ecological paradigm, Marcia Maria Monteiro de Miranda. He has also become the “father by affinity” of a daughter and five sons, sharing the joys and sorrows of responsible parenthood. He lives, accompanies and recreates the unfolding of life in the “grandkids” Marina, Eduardo and Maira.

Reviews

[Paulo Maua · Rating 5 out of 5]

Descobrir o verdadeiro Brasil no texto de Boff é um prazer imensurável. Cada uma das lendas e mitos indígenas são explicados e narrados com maestria. Um livro obrigatório.

[Gabriel Marangoni · Rating 5 out of 5]

Livro enternecedor! O autor revela sua vontade autêntica de dar visibilidade às estórias indígenas de diferentes povos.

Fui do riso com as onças desastradas ao choro com contos que revelam o que há de mais humano em nós - o medo, a raiva, a alegria e a paixão.

Reagatar os contos ancestrais - e aprender com eles - é essencial se quisermos mudar o curso de destruição planetária atualmente assumido pelo ocidente.

[Ary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eu só senti falta de um referenciamento mais bem feito pra gente poder ir atrás de outras versões mais facilmente. Mas é um trabalho de compilação, curadoria e reinteroretação muito bom e muito importante. Fundamental para nós filhos deste Brasil.

[Natalia Rodrigues · Rating 2 out of 5]

Esperava mais contos, mais mitos e menos interpretações pessoais e considerações. Ok, mas podia ser melhor. Aquele pequeno antigo de folclore (que sumiu) era mais abrangente, completo e divertido.

[Uanine Oliveira · Rating 4 out of 5]

que leitura linda e doce, dá pra passear por essas estórias igual criança

[Ana Bof · Rating 5 out of 5]

Conhecer as histórias é conhecer o povo. Por meio das histórias compiladas por Boff, podemos conhecer o Brasil e parte significativa da nossa cultura que tanto tentam nos fazer esquecer.

[Emilly Gabriella · Rating 5 out of 5]

life-changing 🥹