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Migrational Religion - Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Migrational Religion - Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Many scholars have documented how migration from Latin America to
the United States shapes the interconnected spheres of religious
participation, political engagement, and civic formation in host
countries. What has largely gone unexplored is how the experiences
of migration and adaptation to the host country also shape the
ecclesiological arrangements, theological imagination, and communal
strategies of immigrant religious networks. These communities
maintain close ties with their home countries while simultaneously
developing a religious life that distinguishes them both from their
home countries and from faith communities of the dominant culture
in their host countries. Joao Chaves offers an account of the
dynamics that shape the role of immigrant churches in the United
States. Migrational Religion acts as a case study of a network
formed by communities of Brazilian immigrants who, although
affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention, formed a
distinctive ethnic association. Their churches began to appear in
the United States in the 1980s due to Brazilian Baptist missionary
activity. As Brazilian migration increased in the last decades of
the twentieth century, hundreds of Brazilian evangelical churches
were founded to cater to first-generation immigrants. Initially
their leaders conceived of these churches as extensions of their
denomination in Brazil. However, these church communities were
under constant pressure to adapt to their rapidly changing context,
and the challenges of immigrant living pushed them in exciting new
directions. Brazilian churches in the United States faced a number
of issues peculiar to their nature as diasporic communities:
undocumented parishioners, membership fluctuation caused by
national and international migration patterns, anti-immigrant
prejudice, and more. Based on six years of ethnographic work in
eleven congregations across the United States, dozens of interviews
with Brazilian pastors, and extensive archival history in English
and Portuguese, Migrational Religion documents how such churches
adapted to unique challenges, and reveals how the diasporic
experience fosters incipient theologies in churches of the Latinx
diaspora.
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