Handbook of contemporary religions in Brazil / / edited by Bettina E. Schmidt Steven Engler.

• Superior document: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, Volume 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Schmidt, Bettina E.,; Engler, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill handbooks on contemporary religion ; Volume 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (566 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The Brill Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil provides an unprecedented overview of Brazil’s religious landscape. It offers a full, balanced and contextualized portrait of contemporary religions in Brazil, bringing together leading scholars from both Brazil and abroad, drawing on both fieldwork and detailed reviews of the literatures. For the first time a single volume offers overviews by leading scholars of the full range of Brazilian religions, alongside more theoretically oriented discussions of relevant religious and culture themes. This Handbook’s three sections present specific religions and groups of traditions, Brazilian religions in the diaspora, and issues in Brazilian religions (e.g., women, possession, politics, race and material culture).

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Bettina E. Schmidt and Steven Engler -- Introduction / Steven Engler and Bettina E. Schmidt -- Common Traits of Brazilian Indigenous Religions / Mark Münzel -- Religion among Guaraní-Speaking Groups in Brazil / Graciela Chamorro -- Traditional Popular Catholicism in Brazil / Carlos Alberto Steil -- The Spirit of Brazil: Charismatic Christianity among the World’s Largest Catholic and Pentecostal Populations / R. Andrew Chesnut -- Traditional Protestantism / Leonildo Silveira Campos -- Pentecostalism in Brazil / Paulo Barrera Rivera -- Mormons in Brazil / David Clark Knowlton -- Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous-Influenced Religions / Steven Engler and Ênio Brito -- Candomblé: Religion, World Vision and Experience / Vagner Gonçalves da Silva and Fernando Giobellina Brumana -- Kardecism / Steven Engler and Artur Cesar Isaia -- Umbanda / Steven Engler -- Becoming a Jaguar: Spiritual Routes in the Vale do Amanhecer / Emily Pierini -- Brazil’s Ayahuasca Religions: Comparisons and Contrasts / Andrew Dawson -- Judaism Revivals in Brazil / Marta F. Topel -- Islam in the Brazilian Religious Landscape / Cristina Maria de Castro -- Buddhism, Shinto and Japanese New Religions in Brazil / Frank Usarski and Rafael Shoji -- New Hindu Religions in Brazil: The Hare Krishna Movement / Silas Guerriero -- Brazilian Evangelicals and Neo-Pentecostals in the Diaspora / Daniel Clark -- Orixás across the Atlantic: The Diaspora of Afro-Brazilian Religions in Europe / Clara Saraiva -- Santo Daime in the Diaspora / Gillian Watt -- The Globalization of the John of God Movement: Cultural Translation as Glocalization / Cristina Rocha -- Religion and Politics in Brazil / Ricardo Mariano and Ari Pedro Oro -- Secularism and Religion in the Public Sphere in Contemporary Brazil / Paula Montero -- Women and Religion in Contemporary Brazil / Kelly E. Hayes -- Spirit Possession / Bettina E. Schmidt -- Blackness, Inequality and Religion: The Case of Candomblé / Andreas Hofbauer -- Re-Africanization in Afro-Brazilian Religions: Rethinking Religious Syncretism / Stefania Capone -- Crossroads: Conflicts between Neo-Pentecostalism and Afro-Brazilian Religions / Vagner Gonçalves da Silva -- Black Evangelicalism and Music in Brazil / John Burdick -- Objects and Images in Brazilian Religions / Roger Sansi -- Index / Bettina E. Schmidt and Steven Engler.