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The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions International Studies in Religion and Society Series edited by Lori G. Beaman and Peter Beyer, University of Ottawa VOLUME 16 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/isrs The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions Edited by Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vásquez LEIDEN • BOSTON 2013 Cover illustrations: John of God healing event in New Zealand, 2006 (courtesy Cristina Rocha), soccer players’ changing room in Seville (courtesy Carmen Rial), Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, Rainbow Theatre, London (courtesy David Garbin and Manuel A Vásquez). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The diaspora of Brazilian religions / edited by Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vásquez. pages cm. -- (International studies in religion and society, ISSN 1573-4293 ; Volume 16) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-90-04-23694-3 (alk. paper) 1. Brazil--Religion. I. Rocha, Cristina. BL2590.B7D54 2013 200.89’698--dc23 2013000442 This publication has been typeset in the multilingual “Brill” typeface. With over 5,100 characters covering Latin, IPA, Greek, and Cyrillic, this typeface is especially suitable for use in the humanities. For more information, please see www.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 1573-4293 ISBN 978-90-04-23694-3 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-24603-4 (e-book) Copyright 2013 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Global Oriental, Hotei Publishing, IDC Publishers and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper. CONTENTS List of Illustrations ....................................................................................................vii List of Contributors ....................................................................................................ix Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................xv Introduction: Brazil in the New Global Cartography of Religion ...................1 Manuel A. Vásquez and Cristina Rocha SECTION ONE BRAZILIAN CHRISTIANITY: CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM Edir Macedo’s Pastoral Project: A Globally Integrated Pentecostal Network ........................................................................................... 45 Clara Mafra, Claudia Swatowiski and Camila Sampaio Brazilian Churches in London: Transnationalism of the Middle ................ 69 Olivia Sheringham The “Devil’s Egg”: Football Players as New Missionaries of the Diaspora of Brazilian Religions............................................................ 91 Carmen Rial Brazilian Pentecostalism in Peru: Affinities between the Social and Cultural Conditions of Andean Migrants and the Religious Worldview of the Pentecostal Church “God is Love” ...............................117 Dario Paulo Barrera Rivera Catholicism for Export: The Case of Canção Nova ..........................................137 Brenda Carranza and Cecília Mariz SECTION TWO AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS Umbanda and Batuque in the Southern Cone: Transnationalization as Cross-Border Religious Flow and as Social Field ..................................165 Alejandro Frigerio vi contents Pretos Velhos across the Atlantic: Afro-Brazilian Religions in Portugal ............................................................................................................197 Clara Saraiva Transnational Authenticity: An Umbanda Temple in Montreal ................223 Deirdre Meintel and Annick Hernandez Japanese Brazilians among Pretos-Velhos, Caboclos, Buddhist Monks, and Samurais: An Ethnographic Study of Umbanda in Japan ..............249 Ushi Arakaki Mora Yemanjá? Axé in Diasporic Capoeira Regional ....................................271 Neil Stephens and Sara Delamont SECTION THREE NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS Building a Transnational Spiritual Community: The John of God Movement in Australia .......................................................................291 Cristina Rocha The Valley of Dawn in Atlanta, Georgia: Negotiating Incorporation and Gender Identity in the Diaspora ................................313 Manuel A. Vásquez and José Cláudio Souza Alves The Niche Globalization of Projectiology: Cosmology and Internationalization of a Brazilian Parascience ................................339 Anthony D’Andrea Transcultural Keys: Humor, Creativity and Other Relational Artifacts in the Transposition of a Brazilian Ayahuasca Religion to the Netherlands ............................................................................363 Alberto Groisman Index ...........................................................................................................................387 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Figures Carmen Rial 1. Soccer players’ changing room in Seville (courtesy Carmen Rial) ..................................................................................... 102 Ushi Arakaki 1. Umbanda ritual in Aichi Prefecture (courtesy Ushi Arakaki) .................................................................................... 261 Cristina Rocha 1. Weekly ‘current’ session in a healing center in Sydney (courtesy Cristina Rocha) .................................................................................300 Tables Dario Paulo Barrera Rivera 1. New churches IPDA between January and October 2007 .........................123 2. Migrant population according to the four last censuses ..........................125 3. Serrano and Spanish words ............................................................................. 129 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS José Claúdio Souza Alves is Professor of Sociology and Dean of Extension Programs at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of São Paulo and is author of Dos barões ao extermínio: uma história da violência na Baixada Fluminense. Most recently, Alves has contributed a chapter entitled “Immigrant Regime of Production: The State, Political Mobilization, and Religious and Business Networks among Brazilians in South Florida,” which appeared in A Place to Be: Brazilian, Guatemalan, and Mexican Immigrants in Florida’s New Destinations (2009). Ushi Arakaki earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Osaka University. She has been researching the Brazilian transnational community in Japan since 2002. She obtained a Master in Anthropology from Osaka University in 2005, a Master in International Cooperation from Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2002, and the degree of Bachelor of Psychology from Federal University of Paraná in 2001. Her research areas are: globalization, transna- tionalism, religion and cultural identity. Recent publications include: “Toransunashonaru jidai no Umbanda (Umbanda in Transnational Times).” In Kokuritsu Minzoku Gakuhakubutsukan Chōsa Hōkoku (Senri Ethnological Reports) 83: 89–104 (2009). Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology. Brenda Carranza is Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil. Her publications include: “Der katholische Pentekostalis- mus Brasiliens im Wandel.” In: Pentekostalismus. Die Pfingstbewegung als Anfrage an Theologie und Kirche, Frankfurt: Verlag Pustet, 2012, pp. 34–56; “Il cristianesimo pentecostale: nuovo volto della chiesa cattolica.” In: Religioni e società. Rivista di scienze sociali della religione: cristianesimi senza frontiere: le chiese pentecostali nel mondo. Anno XXVII. 73. Maggio-Agost. Roma/Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2012, pp. 46–58; “Juventude em movi- mento: polîtica-linguagens-religião”. In: Mobilidade religiosa: linguagem, juventude, polîtica. São Paulo: Paulinas, 2012, pp. 207–232; “Catholicism and Syncretic Religions”. In: Concilum International Review of Theology. London: SCMM Press, 2011/5, pp. 123–133; “Para compreender teológica e pastoralmente as novas comunidades”. In: Convergência, Ano XLV- Nº 433 julho/agosto, 2010, pp. 458–477; “Perspectivas da neopentecostalização católica.” In: As novas comunidades católicas: em busca do espaço x list of contributors pós-moderno, eds. B. Carranza, C. Mariz & M. Camurça, Aparecida, SP: Ideias & Letras, pp. 139–170. Anthony D’Andrea has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and post-doctoral fellowships in Sociology from the University of Limerick and Lancaster University. His research interests lie in the emergence of new lifestyles and spiritualities at the intersection of global, mobile and countercultural processes. Among his main publications on religious diasporas are the book Global Nomads: Techno and New Age as Transnational Countercultures in Ibiza and Goa released under Routledge’s International Library of Sociology series (Routledge: London, 2007) and O self perfeito e a nova era: individualismo e reflexividade em religiosidades pós-tradicionais (Ed. Loyola: São Paulo, 2000). Sara Delamont is Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Her background is in social anthropology and she teaches a module on Brazil. She was the first woman Dean of Social