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The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, the book examines the circulation and consumption of Brazilian Christianities, African-based religion, and diverse expressions of New Age Spiritism and Ayahuasca-centered neo-shamanism.
About the author
Cristina Rocha, Ph.D. (2004, University of Western Sydney) is a Research Fellow at the Religion and Society Research Centre and a Senior Lecturer at the School of Humanities and Communications, Arts, University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is the editor of the Journal of Global Buddhism. Her publications include
Buddhism in Australia (with M. Barker, Routledge, 2010) and
Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity (Hawaii UP, 2006).
Manuel A. Vásquez, Ph.D. (1994, Temple University) is Professor at the Religion Department, University of Florida. He is the author of
More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion (Oxford UP, 2011) and
The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (Cambridge UP, 1998). He also co-authored
Living 'Illegal' The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration (New Press, 2011) and
Globalizing the Sacred: Religion across the Americas (Rutgers, 2003).
Contributors include Ushi Arakaki, Dario Paulo Barrera Rivera, Brenda Carranza, Anthony D'Andrea, Sara Delamont, Alejandro Frigerio, Alberto Groisman, Annick Hernandez, Clara Mafra, Cecília Mariz, Deirdre Meintel, Carmen Rial, Cristina Rocha, Camila Sampaio, Clara Saraiva, Olivia Sheringham, Neil Stephens, José Claúdio Souza Alves, Claudia Swatowiski, and Manuel A. Vásquez.
