Global trajectories of Brazilian religion
Subtitle: lusospheres \
By: edited by Martijn Oosterbaan, Linda van de Kamp and Joana Bahia
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781350072091; 9781350072077
Subjects: Theology; Religion
Description: "This book explores the proliferation and spread of Brazilian-born religious forms and practices throughout the world. The global diffusion of Brazilian religions provides an excellent lens to understand contemporary religious forms. As the book shows, religious movements as diverse as Santo Daime, Candombl, Capoeira, John of God, and Brazilian style Pentecostalism and Catholicism, have become immensely popular in many places outside Brazil. This global spread is not merely the result of Brazilian migrants taking their religions abroad, it is also due to global media and to spiritual seekers, travelling to and from Brazil. Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion demonstrates that in a dynamic space of historical and cultural production, Brazil is imagined and re-created as an authentic, spiritual, and sensual place that functions as the center for various global religions. To understand the new cross-fertilizations between religion, life-style, tourism and migration, this book introduces the notion of 'Lusospheres', a term that refers to the historical Portuguese colonial reach, yet signals the contemporary modes of cultural interaction in a different geo-political age."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Table of contents: title: 1.Introduction, Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Linda van de Kamp (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Joana Bahia (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); title: Part 1: Media, Tourism and Pilgrimage; title: 2. How Religions Travel: Comparing the John of God Movement and a Brazilian Migrant Church, Cristina Rocha (Western Sydney University, Australia); title: 3. Appropriating Terra Santa: Holy Land Tours, Ontology, and the 'Judaization' of Pentecostalism in Brazil, Matan Ilan Shapiro (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel); title: 4."Pray Looking North". Change and Continuity of Transnational Umbanda in Uruguay, Andres Serralta Manssounnier (University of Montevide, Uruguay); title: 5. Structure and Butinage in the Trajectories of the Santo Daime and União do Vegetal between Brazil and Spain, Jessica Greganich (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands and State University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil); title: Part 2: Human Rights, Gender and Sexuality; title: 6. Between Activism and Spiritual Battle: A Transnational Ethnography of a Brazilian LGBT Church, Marcelo Natividade (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil); title: 7. The Brazilian and Iberian-American Missionary Communication of a Human Rights Church in Cuba, Aramis Luis Silva (CEBRAP - Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning, Brazil); title: 8. Reshaping Transnational Belonging: Meanings and Practices of the Dutch-Brazilian Charismatic Catholic Movement, Andrea Damacena Martins (Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil); title: Part 3: Migration, Spirituality, Heritage and Authenticity; title: 9. The Transnationalization of Afro-Brazilian Religions in Germany, Joana Bahia (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); title: 10. Sacred behind Closed Doors: Transnational Narratives and Aesthetics in a Candomblé terreiro in Lisbon, Roberta de Mello Correa (Fluminense Federal University, Brazil); title: 11.The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in France: Demonization, Prosperity and Globalization, Ronaldo R. M. de Almeida (State University of Campinas, Brazil) and Carlos Gutierrez (State University of Campinas); title: 12.The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Angola, Claudia Swatowiski (Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil); title: 13.The Regulation of Globalized Capoeira Angola's Religious Instantiations: The Relation between the Irmãos Guerreiros Group and the Ilê Obá Silekê in Europe, Celso de Brito (Federal University of Piauí, Brazil); title: Bibliography; title: Index.