Transnational Religious Spaces: Faith and the Brazilian Migration Experience

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by  Olivia Sheringham (auth.)

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Transnational Religious
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Faith and the Brazilian Migration
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Olivia Sheringham
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables ix
Acknowledgements x
ListofAcronyms xii
Glossary xiii
1 Introduction 1
Braziliansasanewmigrantcommunityina‘super-diverse’
city 3
Transnationalism,diaspora,belonging 5
Transnationalismandreligion:amulti-scalarapproach 10
Researchingmobilereligion:anoteonmethods 14
Outlineofthebook 17
Part I TheoreticalandContextualFrames
2 TheBrazilian‘diaspora’ 23
LeavingBrazil 24
Brazilianmigrantsaroundtheworld 32
AprofileofBraziliansintheUK 36
Concludingremarks 48
3 Global,Transnational,andEverydayReligion 50
Religionandglobalisation 51
‘DeuséBrasileiro’:theBrazilianreligiousfield 60
ReligionandBrazilianmigration 66
ReligionandBraziliansinLondon 69
Locatingmyresearch 71
Concludingremarks 73
Part II LivingReligionTransnationallyamong
BraziliansinLondonand‘BackHome’
4 TransnationalCongregations 77
Religiousinstitutionsand‘transnationalismofthemiddle’ 78
Religiousinstitutionsinnewenvironments 84
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viii Contents
Religioustransnationalities 100
Concludingremarks 109
5 The‘Brazilian’TransnationalChurch:SocialHuband
SacredSpace 111
FromBraziltoLondon:seekingthechurch
attimesofneed 112
ThechurchandasenseofbelonginginLondon 123
Religiouspracticesacrossborders 135
Concludingremarks 144
6 NarrativesofReligionasLived(Transnationally) 147
AbroaderunderstandingofreligionamongBrazilians 148
FaithandmigratingtoLondon 164
Transnational‘religionaslived’ 170
Concludingremarks 175
7 Conclusions 177
Thetransnationalreligiouslivesofanewmigrant
communityinLondon 178
Livingreligiontransnationally 183
Pathwaysforfutureresearch 186
Appendix1:ListofResearchParticipants 188
Notes 199
Bibliography 203
Index 223
Figures and Tables
Figures
2.1 BrazilianmigrantsintheUK(1901–2011) 37
2.2 Changesinoccupationthroughmigrationandsettlement 42
2.3 CurrentimmigrationstatusamongBraziliansintheUK 45
4.1 HosanaLondres.Eventorganisedbythecharismatic
prayergroup 87
4.2 CultoattheCEL 89
6.1 Homeshrines 158
Tables
2.1 EstimatesofBrazilianslivingabroad(1996–2010) 29
3.1 MainreligionsinBrazil,1980–2010,accordingto
BrazilianCensus 60
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