St. Clair, George. 2017. ‘God Even Blessed Me with Less Money’: Disappointment, Pentecostalism and the Middle Classes in Brazil. Journal …
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Ikeuchi, “Accompanied Self”
Ikeuchi, Suma. 2017. Accompanied Self: Debating Pentecostal Individual and Japanese Relational Selves in Transnational Japan. Ethos 45(1): 3-23. Abstract: While …
Dengah, “Examining Costly Religious Rituals”
Dengah, H.J. Francois II. 2017. Being Part of the Nacao: Examining Costly Religious Rituals in a Brazilian Neo-Pentecostal Church. Ethos 45(1): 48-74. …
Rivers, “Evangelical fighting ministries”
Rivers, Jessica. 2016. The intimate intensity of Evangelical fighting ministries. Temenos 52(2): 215-237. Abstract: The author discusses what she learned from her participation …
Gidal, “Catholic Music in Lusophone New Jersey”
Gidal, Marc Meistrich Gidal. 2016. Catholic Music in Lusophone New Jersey: Circum-Atlantic Music, Intergroup Dynamics, and Immigrant Struggles in Transnational …
van de Kamp, “Violent Conversion”
van de Kamp, Linda. 2016. Violent Conversion: Brazilian Pentecostalism and Urban Women in Mozambique. Oxford: James Currey. Publisher’s Description: There …
Vilaça, Aparecida. 2016. Praying and Preying: Christianity in Indigenous Amazonia, translated by David Rodgers
Reviewed by G.E.R. Lloyd (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge UK). This is a truly remarkable book. In most anthropological monographs the reader is given a detailed analysis of one particular collectivity, the circumstances of their lives, their kinship relations, social structures, myths, rituals, ways of making sense of the world and of their place in it.
Smiderle and Mesquita, “Political Conflict and Spiritual Battle”
Smiderle, Carlos Gustavo Sarmet Moreira and Wania Amelia Belchior Mesquita. 2016. Political Conflict and Spiritual Battle: Intersections between Religion and …
Engler, “Dona Benta’s Rosary”
Engler, Steven. 2015. Dona Benta’s Rosary: Managing Ambiguity in a Brazilian Women’s Prayer Group. Journal of the American Academy of …
Rebhun, “Living Saints, Dead Saints”
Rebhun, Linda-Anne. 2016. “Living Saints, Dead Saints, and Ordinary Women in Northeast Brazil.” In Religious Diversity Today: Experiencing Religion in …