Slavery and Protestant missions in imperial Brazil : "the black does not enter the church, he peeks in from outside" / José Carlos Barbosa ; translated with an introduction by Fraser G. MacHaffie and Richard K. Danford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbosa, José Carlos, 1957-

Standardized Title:

Negro não entra na igreja. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Protestantism--Brazil--History.

Protestantism.

Slavery--Brazil--History.

Slavery.

History.

Brazil.

Black people--Brazil--Religion.

Black people.

Religion.

Physical Description:

xx, 168 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : University Press of America, [2008]

Summary:

In 1888, Brazil was the last nation in the modern west to abolish slavery. Slavery and Protestant Missions in Imperial Brazil is an enlightening look at the role Christianity played in the struggle to abolish slavery in Brazil. Author Jose Carlos Barbosa seeks to explain why Protestant missionaries stationed in Brazil during the nineteenth century remained silent on the issue of abolition, even after the end of the American Civil War. Barbosa asserts that the missionaries' first priority was to secure a toehold for Protestantism and that meant not alienating the political and landowning elites of Brazilian society. Also, dominant theological thinking placed spiritual matters over temporal: "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and give to God what is God's" making abolition in Brazil a largely secular struggle.

Contents:

Chapter I "A closed garden which wild animals cannot enter": The Implantation of Protestantism in Brazil 1

No wolf dared to approach 1

The wolves appear 6

Wolves united will never be divided 15

Chapter II "Contrary to what many think, Brazil is not an uncivilized and barbarous country": Missionary Strategy 27

We have not yet tried to organize a school: Education 27

Our holy religion ought to be defended and avenged: Controversy 31

He preached to an eager multitude that filled the room: Proselytization 38

Chapter III "Slavery is like a thorn that penetrates the flesh and causes excruciating pain but which we do not want to pull out, for fear that the operation will further increase the pain": The Institutional Protestant Message and Slavery 45

Compare the black in Africa, in his cannibalism and appalling condition, to our slave: American Protestantism and slavery 45

A Home was found for the southerners, a refuge from misfortune, a home not saddened by scenes of grief or death: Immigration initiatives 54

The time has come when Brazil ought to cast slavery off permanently: Abolitionist initiatives 62

The Brazilian Lazarus breaks the stone of the tomb to the sound of the redeeming word: Protestant theology and slavery 90

Appendix "The Christian Religion and its relation to Slavery" 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-164) and index.

ISBN:

0761843000

9780761843009

OCLC:

245524195