Bloomsbury Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion: Lusospheres (Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place)

This book explores the proliferation and spread of Brazilian born religious forms and practices throughout the world. It shows that religious movements as diverse as Santo Daime, Candomblé, Capoeira, John of God, and Brazilian style Pentecostalism and Catholicism, have become immensely popular in many places outside Brazil. The chapters argue that the spread of Brazilian religions is not only the result of Brazilian migrants taking their religions with them, but it is also due to spiritual seekers travelling to and from Brazil and the increasing number of Brazilian tourists travelling abroad. This book shows that Brazilian religious practices, objects and media play a central role in the making of the present-day transnational Lusosphere, the historical Portuguese colonial reach that is often identified by way of its linguistic footprint. Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religions demonstrates that in a dynamic space of historical and cultural production, Brazil is imagined and re-created as the cool territory authentic, tropical, spiritual and sensual highlighting new modes of cultural and religious exchange. Review "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 studyingcontemporary processes of religious globalization more broadly." - Nova Religio About the Author 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 Janiero, Brazil.