Overview

Through deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, the city's expansive and sprawling peripheral communities. Based on sensory ethnographic fieldwork attuned to religious desire and manipulation, this book shows how Evangelicalism has changed the way people understand their lives in relation to Brazil's history of violent racial differentiation and inequality. From expressions of otherworldly hope to political exhaustion, Go with God depicts Evangelical life as it is lived and explores where people turn to find grace, possibility, and a future.  

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“Beautifully written. . . . Offers a close engagement with evangelical believers’ (crentes) everyday lives in a western subúrbio of Rio de Janeiro called Batan.” * American Religion * “This short, beautifully written ethnography offers a close engagement with evangelical believers’ “crentes” everyday lives in a western subúrbio of Rio de Janeiro, called Batan. The book’s central premise is that under conditions of unceasing crisis, precarity, and state negligence, intimate neighborhood-level communities of faith offer support networks for mutual aid and, at least sometimes, hope.”   * American Religion *

“Beautifully written. . . . Offers a close engagement with evangelical believers’ (crentes) everyday lives in a western subúrbio of Rio de Janeiro called Batan.” * American Religion *

Author Information

Laurie Denyer Willis is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

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