The diaspora of Brazilian religions /

The diaspora of Brazilian religions /

The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil, a country that has emerged as a major pole of religious innovation and production. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, ranging from the Americas (Canada, the U.S., Peru, an...

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Main Author: Rocha.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013.

Series: International Studies in Religion and Society 16.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2013, ISBN: 9789004248748.

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Brazil > Religion.

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Call Number: BL2590.B7 R63 2013

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vásquez
  • Introduction: Brazil in the New Global Cartography of Religion /
  • Manuel A. Vásquez and Cristina Rocha
  • Edir Macedo's Pastoral Project: A Globally Integrated Pentecostal Network /
  • Clara Mafra , Claudia Swatowiski and Camila Sampaio
  • Brazilian Churches in London: Transnationalism of the Middle /
  • Olivia Sheringham
  • The "Devil's Egg": Football Players as New Missionaries of the Diaspora of Brazilian Religions /
  • Carmen Rial
  • Brazilian Pentecostalism in Peru: Affinities between the Social and Cultural Conditions of Andean Migrants and the Religious Worldview of the Pentecostal Church "God is Love" /
  • Dario Paulo Barrera Rivera
  • Catholicism for Export: The Case of Canção Nova /
  • Brenda Carranza and Cecília Mariz
  • Umbanda and Batuque in the Southern Cone: Transnationalization as Cross-Border Religious Flow and as Social Field /
  • Alejandro Frigerio
  • Pretos Velhos across the Atlantic: Afro-Brazilian Religions in Portugal /
  • Clara Saraiva
  • Transnational Authenticity: An Umbanda Temple in Montreal /
  • Deirdre Meintel and Annick Hernandez
  • Japanese Brazilians among Pretos-Velhos, Caboclos, Buddhist Monks, and Samurais: An Ethnographic Study of Umbanda in Japan /
  • Ushi Arakaki
  • Mora Yemanjá? Axé in Diasporic Capoeira Regional /
  • Neil Stephens and Sara Delamont
  • Building a Transnational Spiritual Community: The John of God Movement in Australia /
  • Cristina Rocha
  • The Valley of Dawn in Atlanta, Georgia: Negotiating Incorporation and Gender Identity in the Diaspora /
  • Manuel A. Vásquez and José Cláudio Souza Alves
  • The Niche Globalization of Projectiology: Cosmology and Internationalization of a Brazilian Parascience /
  • Anthony D'Andrea
  • Transcultural Keys: Humor, Creativity and Other Relational Artifacts in the Transposition of a Brazilian Ayahuasca Religion to the Netherlands /
  • Alberto Groisman
  • Index /
  • Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vásquez.