Pentecostalism and 'National Culture': A Dialogue between Brazilian Social Sciences and the Anthropology of Christianity

Mariz, Cecília Loreto; Campos, Roberta Bivar Carneiro

doi:10.3167/arrs.2011.020107

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“…Local scholars prefer “popular” rather than “folk” religion because, in the Latin American context, “folk” religiosity is not reducible to one type of religious identification. It includes a wide range of devotions, from indigenous peoples’ spiritualities to the popular culture of Catholic traditions (Korstanje, 2007; Mariz and Campos, 2011; Meliá, 1993; Romero, 2014a; Sanchis, 1997).…”

Section: Latin American Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, for some scholars, popular religiosity became the religious expression of the cultural nativism and political populist movements. It is conceived as the religious result of the ethnic blend, which gave birth to national imagined communities that overcame the differences between whites, natives, and blacks (Ameigeiras, 2008; Blancarte, 2000; Camurça, 2009; Cuda, 2016; De la Torre, 2012; Engelke, 2011; Forni, 1986; Linkogle, 1998; Mariz and Campos, 2011; Meliá, 1993; Parker Gumucio, 1999).…”

Section: Latin American Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape

Morello

Romero

Rabbia

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Critical Research on Religion

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This is an interpretative, critical, and selective review of scholarly contributions that explore Latin America’s religious landscape. We present data, both qualitative and quantitative, from Latin America and analyze the explanations given to make sense of it. After assessing the literature that uses either secularization theory or the “religious economy” approach, we study explanations that highlight a Latin American style of “popular religiosity.” These three models, in different ways, put the emphasis on religious institutions—their vitality, commands, competition, and authority. We propose, instead, a focus on the religious practices of regular believers. We speculate that embarking from that focus, the idea of an “enchanted modernity” will help make sense of Latin America’s religious landscape. Nuanced elucidation of Latin America’s religious particularities will situate them in dialogue with other regions of the world, like western Europe and the United States, while also acknowledging the fact that Latin America is experiencing a modernization process distinct from the North Atlantic one.

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Section: Latin American Explanationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Latin American Explanationsmentioning

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An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape

Morello

Romero

Rabbia

et al. 2017

Critical Research on Religion

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“…In 2018, the powerful ‘Igreja Evangélica Assembleia de Deus em Pernambuco’ (IEADPE, Evangelical Church Assembly of God in Pernambuco), an early Pentecostal denomination created in Recife a century ago, owned eighteen churches in the rural part of the district, and 26 in the urban one. Until the 1990s, while mentioning this growing presence at the grassroots in passing, social scientists usually privileged the political action of liberationist Catholicism, before increasingly turning to study so‐called Neo‐Pentecostalism and institutionalised politics, a ‘turn’ that somehow blurred the difference between popular ‘syncretism’ and the cultural ‘break’ of conversion (Mariz and Campos, 2011). However, early pastoral investigations in the sugarcane region carried out by liberationist priests did underline the success of classical Pentecostalism.…”

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‘Trusting the Lord, Conquering the Land’: Pentecostals, Landless Movement and Grassroots Politics from Dilma Rousseff to Jair Bolsonaro

Simbsler

2021

Bull Latin American Res

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One dominant narrative of the recent Brazilian crisis elaborated by scholars explains it as the result of a (lost) battle of secularist and progressive forces against religious and conservative ones. This paper challenges such a Manichaean viewpoint, by approaching grassroots politics in the context of critical events from Dilma Rousseff's impeachment to Jair Bolsonaro's victory in the 2018 presidential elections, from an ethnographic perspective. Drawing on fieldwork among Pentecostal families involved in the Landless Workers Movement, this paper argues that looking at moral reciprocity as well as power relations may help us to move beyond dichotomous stereotypes and analytical frameworks such as ‘patronage’ or ‘populism’.

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“…Simultaneously fundamentalist movements, especially Islam and Pentecostal movements, are globally on the rise and seen as indicators of a need for belonging in the fragmented, individualist realities of contemporary societies (ibid.). More precisely the Brazilian religious field has recently been characterized by two significant contextual tendencies: cultural continuity, understood as a typical form of fluid religious identities silently embraced by popular Catholicism, and cultural transformation now provoked by the expansion and socio-political effects of exclusive Pentecostal conversion (Mariz & Campos, 2011).…”

Section: Universidad De Varsovia Centro De Estudios Americanosmentioning

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The Pentecostal War Against Afro-Brazilian ‘Demons’ – Politics, Selfhood and Shared Experience of Spiritual Work in Southeast Brazil

Lundell

2020

RDC

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This article discusses the religious conflict between Afro-Brazilian and Pentecostal groups shedding light on the complex relations between cross-religious experiences and the official acknowledgement of ‘religion’ in Brazil. The study analyses devotees and clients’ experiences in the rituals of Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus and Umbanda addressing fluid selfhoods and the multiple human and other-than-human agencies in the making of individual life trajectories through ritual participation. Thus, regarding religious conflict merely through bounded identities, institutions or dogma, the study shows that behind the fortifying religious conflict between Pentecostal and Afro-Brazilian religious groups relies a politically complex, colonially framed concept of ‘religion’ which leaves out of academic and political consideration a large part of effective ritual knowledge and agency, continuously re-producing the inferior position of ‘Afro-Brazilian religions’ within the Brazilian society. The analysis in this article is based on ethnographic field research carried out in Southeast Brazilian states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo during 2008-2015.

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Pentecostalism and 'National Culture': A Dialogue between Brazilian Social Sciences and the Anthropology of Christianity

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An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape

An enchanted modernity: Making sense of Latin America’s religious landscape

‘Trusting the Lord, Conquering the Land’: Pentecostals, Landless Movement and Grassroots Politics from Dilma Rousseff to Jair Bolsonaro

The Pentecostal War Against Afro-Brazilian ‘Demons’ – Politics, Selfhood and Shared Experience of Spiritual Work in Southeast Brazil

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