Christianity in Brazil: An Introduction from a Global Perspective by
This book offers a novel approach to considering Brazilian Christianity's interplay with global processes from its inception to the present day. It adopts a multi-scalar approach to Brazilian Christianity, linking local grassroots practices and beliefs with processes at the various spatio-temporal levels.
The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions (Online) by
Explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil, a country that has emerged as a major pole of religious innovation and production. Includes discussion of the migration of Pentecostalism and Catholicism, as well as African-based religions such as Candombl and Umbanda.
Religious Conflict in Brazil: Protestants, Catholics, and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century (Online) by
This innovative study explores the transition in Brazil from a hegemonically Catholic society to a religiously pluralistic society. Shows that the rise of religious pluralism was fraught with conflict and violence, as Catholic bishops, priests, and friars organized intense campaigns against Protestantism.
Grassroots Pentecostalism in Brazil and the United States by
Offers an historical and comparative profile of classical pentecostal movements in Brazil and the United States in view of their migratory beginnings and transnational expansion.
Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America by
Explores the predicament of the Catholic Church in the face of the apparently irresistible rise of Pentecostalism, examines the structure and practices of the religious organizations and assesses the broader political implications of these developments.
Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil (Online) by
Based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro, this book argues that the Pentecostal movement's growth is due directly to its ability to connect politics, entertainment, and religion.
Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church by
Assesses the successes and failures of the liberation theology movement in relation to gender.
The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity by
Examines economic, social and religious obstacles to progressive liberation theology in Brazil. Focusing on a Catholic community near Rio de Janeiro, Manuel A. Vásquez's incisive study shows how economic and political changes have affected religious practices, and argues that the plight of progressive Catholicism in Brazil forms part of a wider crisis of modernity and of humanist discourses.
Brazilian Evangelicalism in the Twenty-First Century by
This volume's authors use statistical overview, historical narrative, personal anecdote, social-scientific analysis, and theological inquiry to map out this emerging landscape. The book's thematic center pivots on the question of how Brazilian evangelicals are exerting their presence and effecting change in the public life of the nation.
The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South: Southern Baptist Missionaries and the Shaping of Latin American Evangelicalism by
Analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern Baptist Convention missionaries in the largest Latin America country shaped aspects of Latin American evangelicalism in general and the Brazilian Baptist Convention in particular.
Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil (Online) by
The first in-depth ethnography to investigate the "Judaizing Evangelical" variant in Brazil within exclusively Charismatic Evangelical churches.
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