Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion

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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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

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