| Summary: | Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Global Significance of Brazilian Christianity -- Chapter 1: Christianity Comes to Brazil: Hybridity, Domination, and Resistance -- The Portuguese Background -- Christianity in Brazil: The First Cycle -- Brazilian Christianity on the Move: Beyond the Coast -- Church-State Conflicts: From Colony to Independence -- Romanization: Scope, Limitations, and Paradoxes -- Beyond Romanization? Brazilian Progressive Catholicism -- Brazilian Christianity Unbound -- Chapter 2: Competing and Cross-Fertilizing Structures of Feeling and Experience: Ways of Being Christian in Brazil -- Chapter 3: Religious Innovators and Entrepreneurs: Brazilian Christianity from a Micro Perspective -- The Foundational Period -- The Jesuits -- Manuel da Nóbrega (1517-1570) -- José de Anchieta (1534-1597) -- Antônio Vieira (1608-1697) -- The Protestants -- Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon (1510-1571) -- Grappling with Modernity: Popular Prophets, Messiahs, and Saints -- Antônio Conselheiro (1830-1897)9 -- Padre Cícero (1872-1934)13 -- Sebastião da Silveira Cintra Leme-Cardinal Leme (1882-1942) -- Modern Protestantism and Pentecostalism -- Robert Reid Kalley (1809-1888) -- Gunnar Vingren (1879-1933) and Daniel Berg (1884-1963) -- The Contemporary Religious Scene -- Edir Macedo (1945-): Brazilian Neo-Pentecostalism -- Marcelo Rossi (1967-): Charismatic Catholicism20 -- Leonardo Boff (1938-): Progressive Catholicism -- Ivone Gebara (1944-): Progressive Popular Catholicism -- Chapter 4: Regional, Urban, and Rural Diversity -- The Regions in Broad Strokes -- Regional Religious Diversity in Brazil -- Catholics, Evangelicals, and "No Religion": A Regional View14 -- Chapter 5: A Multifaceted Christianity: A Denominational View.
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