Lusospheres

Oosterbaan, Martijn; Bahia, Joana

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“…Through flows of Brazilian migrants to the Global North – began in the 1980s and intensified by the current Brazilian recession – mediumistic religions spread overseas as part of ‘the diaspora of Brazilian religions’, which has informed a new ‘polycentric global religious cartography’ (Rocha and Vásquez, 2013). The increasing presence of Brazilian mediumistic practices in European countries is also intensifying the spiritual tourism of Europeans towards the Global South (Dawson, 2013; Oosterbaan et al, 2019; Rocha and Vásquez, 2013), who may either receive treatment through spiritual therapies (Rocha, 2017) or be trained into a mediumistic practice, with new mediums then returning to their homelands and opening their spiritual centres. In fact, while most European centres have a Brazilian spiritual leader and local participants, others are entirely managed by locals (Groisman, 2009; Kurz, 2018; Saraiva, 2013), which suggests that these centres are way more than places for migrants to maintain their practices overseas.…”

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Transnational mediumship and the development of a transhistorical self in the Vale do Amanhecer

Pierini

2021

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The mediumistic practices of the Brazilian Spiritualist Christian Order Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of the Dawn) are spreading transnationally through migration and spiritual tourism. This article illustrates the mediums’ circulation between Brazil and Europe, how they forge sacred spaces and mediumistic bodies, and the challenges of translation of the doctrine and rituals. It then proposes a phenomenological approach to the transnational circulation of mediumistic practices focussing on the experiences of mediums, analysing a particular conceptualisation of the self in a transhistorical dimension, which may foster or inhibit transnational mobility. It argues that the notion of a transhistorical self in the context of transnational mediumship gives rise to new configurations of the relationship among place, history, and self, allowing new embodied spatial dispositions and ways of knowing while expanding possibilities of being and belonging trans-space and time.

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Transnational mediumship and the development of a transhistorical self in the Vale do Amanhecer

Pierini

2021

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“… 2. Fieldwork in Amsterdam took place during various periods. From 2012 to 2014, as part of postdoctoral research on transnational Pentecostal networks between Brazil, Southern Africa, and Europe, I mainly followed Pentecostal movements and connections (Oosterbaan et al, 2019; L. van de Kamp, 2017).…”

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Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam

Kamp

2022

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The central focus of this article is the interaction between religious actors and urban regeneration in the former industrial area of Amsterdam North. While there is extensive literature on the structural, sociocultural, and economic impact of urban regeneration and related processes of gentrification, the role of religious groups in these processes of neighborhood change has largely been ignored. Based on ethnographic research, I examine how different Christian movements interact with their changing neighborhood in varied forms. The redevelopment of industrial buildings and the gentrification of working-class neighborhoods in Amsterdam North enable different but particular forms of Christian place-making. I focus on two forms of engagement with urban spaces: (a) the reuse of industrial buildings by Pentecostal movements and (b) the transformation of traditional Protestant church buildings into socially mixed neighborhood centers. These two different forms of urban place-making highlight how Christian organizations bring the active agency to urban regeneration and cocreate urban neighborhoods materially and socially.

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Martijn Oosterbaan, Linda van de Kamp & Joana Bahia (Orgs.) Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion

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2020

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Como as religiões brasileiras se espalham ao redor do mundo e formam novos espaços de sociabilidade? O livro Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion: Lusospheres, organizado por Martijn Oosterbaan, Linda van de Kamp e Joana Bahia, é o resultado de um esforço coletivo de pesquisadores brasileiros e estrangeiros para responder a essa pergunta e atentar para as diversas formas de circulação de performances culturais e religiosas, através de imaginações, práticas, objetos e mídias.

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Lusospheres

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Transnational mediumship and the development of a transhistorical self in the Vale do Amanhecer

Transnational mediumship and the development of a transhistorical self in the Vale do Amanhecer

Churches and Urban Regeneration in Postindustrial Amsterdam

Martijn Oosterbaan, Linda van de Kamp & Joana Bahia (Orgs.) Global Trajectories of Brazilian Religion

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