Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion: Lusospheres

Description

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, Candomble, 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.

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.

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) *