Overview

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, Candomblé, 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.

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Author:   Martijn Oosterbaan (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) ,  Linda van de Kamp (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) ,  Joana Bahia (State University of Rio de Janiero)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9781350072060

ISBN 10:   1350072060
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   03 October 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments 1 Lusospheres: The Globalization of Brazilian Religion Martijn Oosterbaan, Linda van de Kamp, and Joana Bahia Part One Media, Tourism, and Pilgrimage 2 How Religions Travel: Comparing the John of God Movement and a Brazilian Migrant Church Cristina Rocha 3 Appropriating Terra Santa: Holy Land Tours, Awe, and the “Judaization” of Brazilian Neo-Pentecostalism Matan Shapiro 4 The Ark of the Covenant in Angola: Connecting a Transnational Pentecostal Network Claudia Wolff Swatowiski Part Two Human Rights, Gender, and Sexuality 5 Brazilian Gay Pastorate in Mission to Cuba: Shaping a Transnational Community of Speech Aramis Luis Silva 6 Identity Reconstructions of Brazilian Women in Pentecostal Spaces in Portugal Kachia Téchio 7 Where Do the Prostitutes Pray? On Travestis, Mães de Santo, Pombagiras, and Postcolonial Desires Joana Bahia 8 Moving Homes: Transnational Meanings and Practices of the Brazilian Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement in the Netherlands Andrea Damacena Martins Part Three Heritage, Embodiment, and Spirituality 9 Between Brazil and Spain: Structure and Butinage in the Trajectories of Santo Daime and União do Vegetal Jessica Greganich 10 “Pray Looking North”: Change and Continuity of Transnational Umbanda in Uruguay Andrés Serralta Massonnier 11 The Constitution of a Transnational Sphere of Transcendence: The Relationship between the Irmãos Guerreiros Capoeira Angola Group and Ilê Obá Silekê in Europe Celso de Brito Notes References Index

Reviews

Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion: Lusospheres is one of precious few scholarly volumes to examine this phenomenon and what it reveals about contemporary processes of religious globalization ... One of the volume's greatest contribution is its sustained attention to Brazilian religions, but it also will be of interest to those studying contemporary processes of religious globalization more broadly. * Nova Religio * As Brazilian religions spread around the world and form new sociability spaces? The book Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion: Lusospheres, organized by Martijn Oosterbaan, Linda van de Kamp and Joana Bahia, is the result of a collective effort by Brazilian and foreign researchers to respond to this question and pay attention to the different ways of circulating cultural performances and religious, through imaginations, practices, objects and media * Ciencias Sociais e Religiao (Bloomsbury Translation) *

Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion: Lusospheres is one of precious few scholarly volumes to examine this phenomenon and what it reveals about contemporary processes of religious globalization ... One of the volume's greatest contribution is its sustained attention to Brazilian religions, but it also will be of interest to those studying contemporary processes of religious globalization more broadly. * Nova Religio *

Author Information

Martijn Oosterbaan is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Linda van de Kamp is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Joana Bahia is Professor in the Department of Human Sciences at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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