The diaspora of Brazilian religions [electronic resource] / edited by Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vasquez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rocha, Cristina.

Series:

International studies in religion and society ; vol. 16.

International studies in religion and society, 1573-4293 ; vol. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religions.

Brazil--Religion.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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, and Argentina) and Europe (the U.K., Portugal, and the Netherlands) to Asia (Japan) and Oceania (Australia), the book examines the conditions, actors, and media that have made possible the worldwide construction, circulation, and consumption of Brazilian religious identities, practices, and lifestyles, including those connected with indigenized forms of Pentecostalism and Catholicism, African-based religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda, as well as diverse expressions of New Age Spiritism and Ayahuasca-centered neo-shamanism like Vale do Amanhecer and Santo Daime.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-24603-7

OCLC:

840887420

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004246034 DOI