RT Book
T1 Christianity in Brazil: an introduction from a global perspective
T2 Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
A1 Fernandes, Sílvia
LA English
PP London England
PB Bloomsbury Academic
YR 2021
ED First edition
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1774717530
AB 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.
AB "This book offers an introduction to Christianity's history and geographic and theological-ritual diversity in Brazil, as well as its ongoing interaction with Brazilian society and politics. 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) and national (secularization, the radical pluralization of the Christian field, and intensified detraditionalization and retraditionalization) and transnational. Sílvia Fernandes also identifies longue durě 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."--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN LCC
SN 9781350204973
SN 9781350204980
K1 Christianity and culture : Brazil
K1 Christianity : Brazil
K1 Religion And Politics : Brazil
K1 Christianity
K1 Electronic books
K1 Brazil : Religion
DO 10.5040/9781350204980