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Christianity in Brazil
An Introduction from a Global Perspective
Christianity in Brazil
An Introduction from a Global Perspective
Description
This book offers a novel approach to considering Brazilian Christianity's interplay with global processes from its inception to the present day. It adopts a multi-scalar approach to Brazilian Christianity, linking local grassroots practices and beliefs with processes at the various spatio-temporal levels. These include regional (rural-urban diversification), national (secularization, the radical pluralization of the Christian field, and intensified detraditionalization and retraditionalization) and transnational.
Sílvia Fernandes also identifies longue durée dynamics that connect colonial Christianity with current events, including the rise, crisis, and resurgence of Progressive Catholicism, and the election of right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro with support from a sizable number of Evangelical Protestants and Charismatic Catholics, as well as “traditionalist” Catholics.
This book demonstrates that as Christianity enters its third millennium, it is increasingly shaped by churches and movements based in the “Global South” that have transnational and diasporic reach through the circulation of migrants, religious entrepreneurs, pilgrims, and tourists, as well as by the expert use of electronic media.
Table of Contents
1. Christianity Comes to Brazil: Hybridity, Domination, and Resistance
2. Competing and Cross-Fertilizing Structures of Feeling: Ways of Being Christian in Brazil
3. Religious Innovators and Entrepreneurs: The Builders of Brazilian Christianity
4. Topographies of Brazilian Christianity: Regional and Urban-Rural Continuities and Discontinuities
5. A Multi-Faceted Christianity: A Denominational View
6. Brazilian Christianity, Politics, and Society
Conclusion: Quo Vadis Brazilian Christianity?
Bibliography
List of Abbreviations
Index
Product details
| Published | 09 Sep 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350204966 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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