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Why is the Black Evangelical Movement Growing in Brazil?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2005

JOHN BURDICK
JOHN BURDICK
Affiliation:
Syracuse University.
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Abstract

In the struggle against racism in Brazil there is a new political actor on the scene: the evangelical black movement. Since the mid-1990s, groups committed to uniting black identity, anti-racism and evangelical theology have rapidly proliferated. This article, applying the analytical terms of political process theory, identifies several key social and political forces that have combined in the past decade to help foster the growth of the movement. The article concludes that the movement has risen on the back of deep and enduring social forces, and argues that it will therefore be increasingly important in the years to come to pay attention to the role evangelical activists play in anti-racist politics in Brazil.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 2 , May 2005 , pp. 311 - 332
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The main research for this article was conducted through the support of an Appleby-Mosher research grant from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, and a grant from the Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA) in the Global Affairs Institute (now the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs), also of the Maxwell School. Supplemental data were gathered with the support of Fulbright-Hayes Faculty Research Abroad Grant #3532366 and a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Award. In the field, it would have been impossible to conduct this research without the gracious and active support of the following people: Hernani Francisco da Silva, Rolf Prieto da Souza, Olimpio de Santana, Ana Gome, Maria da Fé, Sérgio de Mello, Pastor Djalma and Dina. To these, and to all the others who provided insight and time to this project, I am deeply grateful.