Rocha, Cristina.

The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions : The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (407 pages) - International Studies in Religion and Society Ser. ; v.16 . - International Studies in Religion and Society Ser. .

Intro -- The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Brazil in the New Global Cartography of Religion -- SECTION ONE -- BRAZILIAN CHRISTIANITY: CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM -- Edir Macedo's Pastoral Project: A Globally Integrated Pentecostal Network -- Brazilian Churches in London: Transnationalism of the Middle -- The "Devil's Egg": Football Players as New Missionaries of the Diaspora of Brazilian Religions -- 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" -- Catholicism for Export: The Case of Canção Nova -- SECTION TWO -- AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS -- Umbanda and Batuque in the Southern Cone: Transnationalization as Cross-Border Religious Flow and as Social Field -- Pretos Velhos across the Atlantic: Afro-Brazilian Religions in Portugal -- Transnational Authenticity: An Umbanda Temple in Montreal -- Japanese Brazilians among Pretos-Velhos, Caboclos, Buddhist Monks, and Samurais: An Ethnographic Study of Umbanda in Japan -- Mora Yemanjá? Axé in Diasporic Capoeira Regional -- SECTION THREE -- NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS -- Building a Transnational Spiritual Community: The John of God Movement in Australia -- The Valley of Dawn in Atlanta, Georgia: Negotiating Incorporation and Gender Identity in the Diaspora -- The Niche Globalization of Projectiology: Cosmology and Internationalization of a Brazilian Parascience -- Transcultural Keys: Humor, Creativity and Other Relational Artifacts in the Transposition of a Brazilian Ayahuasca Religion to the Netherlands -- Index.

The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, the book examines the circulation and consumption of Brazilian Christianities, African-based religion, and diverse expressions of New Age Spiritism and Ayahuasca-centered neo-shamanism.

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