Christianity in Brazil: An Introduction from a Global Perspective
Ebook
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.
The first book to consider Brazilian Christianity's interplay with global processes from its inception to the present day.
Provides an introduction to Christianity in Brazil, a country with the largest number of Catholics and Pentecostals in the world.
Provides a compelling perspective on the transformations that global Christianity is undergoing as its centre of gravity shifts to the Global South.
Uses a cross-disciplinary approach to religion, blending history, sociology, anthropology, religious studies, and geography, to understand how it works at various scales, from the personal and local to the global.
Introduction: The Global Significance of Brazilian Christianity
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
The book is definitely worth approaching and recommended not only to all those who will simply find the topic interesting, but also perhaps even as one of the obligatory, comprehensive readings, to all new adepts of religious studies focused on Brazil and, in more detail, on Brazilian Christianity.
{The author} presents a book that comes fill a gap ... [making] a considerable contribution.
Silvia Fernandes combines theoretical insight with her experience in the field, to provide an accessible and rigorous overview of the dynamics that have shaped Brazilian Christianity, as well as its contributions to global Luso-religiosity.
- Title: Christianity in Brazil: An Introduction from a Global Perspective
- Author: Sílvia Fernandes
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350204973, 9781350204997, 1350204994, 1350204978
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350204973
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T06:24:32Z
Sílvia Fernandes is a Sociologist and Professor at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.