Handbook of contemporary religions in Brazil /

The Brill Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil provides an unprecedented overview of Brazil's religious landscape. It offers a full, balanced and contextualized portrait of contemporary religions in Brazil, bringing together leading scholars from both Brazil and abroad, drawing on both...

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Other Authors: Schmidt, Bettina E.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 13.
Brill's Companions to Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy Online I, ISBN: 9789004389434.

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Call Number: BL2590.B7

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Bettina E. Schmidt and Steven Engler
  • Introduction /
  • Steven Engler and Bettina E. Schmidt
  • Common Traits of Brazilian Indigenous Religions /
  • Mark Münzel
  • Religion among Guaraní-Speaking Groups in Brazil /
  • Graciela Chamorro
  • Traditional Popular Catholicism in Brazil /
  • Carlos Alberto Steil
  • The Spirit of Brazil: Charismatic Christianity among the World's Largest Catholic and Pentecostal Populations /
  • R. Andrew Chesnut
  • Traditional Protestantism /
  • Leonildo Silveira Campos
  • Pentecostalism in Brazil /
  • Paulo Barrera Rivera
  • Mormons in Brazil /
  • David Clark Knowlton
  • Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous-Influenced Religions /
  • Steven Engler and Ênio Brito
  • Candomblé: Religion, World Vision and Experience /
  • Vagner Gonçalves da Silva and Fernando Giobellina Brumana
  • Kardecism /
  • Steven Engler and Artur Cesar Isaia
  • Umbanda /
  • Steven Engler
  • Becoming a Jaguar: Spiritual Routes in the Vale do Amanhecer /
  • Emily Pierini
  • Brazil's Ayahuasca Religions: Comparisons and Contrasts /
  • Andrew Dawson
  • Judaism Revivals in Brazil /
  • Marta F. Topel
  • Islam in the Brazilian Religious Landscape /
  • Cristina Maria de Castro
  • Buddhism, Shinto and Japanese New Religions in Brazil /
  • Frank Usarski and Rafael Shoji
  • New Hindu Religions in Brazil: The Hare Krishna Movement /
  • Silas Guerriero
  • Brazilian Evangelicals and Neo-Pentecostals in the Diaspora /
  • Daniel Clark
  • Orixás across the Atlantic: The Diaspora of Afro-Brazilian Religions in Europe /
  • Clara Saraiva
  • Santo Daime in the Diaspora /
  • Gillian Watt
  • The Globalization of the John of God Movement: Cultural Translation as Glocalization /
  • Cristina Rocha
  • Religion and Politics in Brazil /
  • Ricardo Mariano and Ari Pedro Oro
  • Secularism and Religion in the Public Sphere in Contemporary Brazil /
  • Paula Montero
  • Women and Religion in Contemporary Brazil /
  • Kelly E. Hayes
  • Spirit Possession /
  • Bettina E. Schmidt
  • Blackness, Inequality and Religion: The Case of Candomblé /
  • Andreas Hofbauer
  • Re-Africanization in Afro-Brazilian Religions: Rethinking Religious Syncretism /
  • Stefania Capone
  • Crossroads: Conflicts between Neo-Pentecostalism and Afro-Brazilian Religions /
  • Vagner Gonçalves da Silva
  • Black Evangelicalism and Music in Brazil /
  • John Burdick
  • Objects and Images in Brazilian Religions /
  • Roger Sansi
  • Index /
  • Bettina E. Schmidt and Steven Engler.