The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions
March 21, 2013 Cristina Rocha, Manuel Arturo Vasquez 48 citations
Brazil has become a major center of religious innovation, and its religions are now spreading globally. This book examines how Brazilian religious identities, practices, and lifestyles—including indigenized Pentecostalism and Catholicism, African-based religions like Candomblé and Umbanda, and New Age Spiritism and ayahuasca-centered neo-shamanism such as Vale do Amanhecer and Santo Daime—are constructed, circulated, and consumed worldwide. Through ethnographic case studies across the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Oceania, the work analyzes the conditions, actors, and media enabling this global diffusion.