Transmitting the Spirit: Religious Conversion, Media, and Urban Violence in Brazil

by Martijn Oosterbaan

Pentecostalism is one of the most rapidly expanding religious-cultural forms in the world. Its rise in popularity is often attributed to its successfully incorporating native cosmologies in new religious frameworks. This volume probes for more complex explanations to this phenomenon in the favelas of Brazil, once one of the most Catholic nations in the world.

Based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro and drawing from religious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271078448
• ISBN13: 9780271078441
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"