New book: THE DIASPORA OF BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS (Brill 2013)Cristina Rocha & Manuel A. Vásquez http://www.brill.com/diaspora-brazilian-religions The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil, a country that has emerged as a major pole of religious innovation and production. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, ranging from the Americas (Canada, the U.S., Peru, and Argentina) and Europe (the U.K., Portugal, and the Netherlands) to Asia (Japan) and Oceania (Australia), the book examines the conditions, actors, and media that have made possible the worldwide construction, circulation, and consumption of Brazilian religious identities, practices, and lifestyles, including those connected with indigenized forms of Pentecostalism and Catholicism, African-based religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda, as well as diverse expressions of New Age Spiritism such as the John of God Movement, and Ayahuasca-centered neo-shamanism like Vale do Amanhecer and Santo Daime. Table of Contents Introduction: Brazil in the New Global Cartography of ReligionManuel A. Vásquez and Cristina Rocha SECTION I: BRAZILIAN CHRISTIANITY: CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM Ch 1: Edir Macedo’s Pastoral Project: A Globally Integrated Pentecostal NetworkClara Mafra, Claudia Swatowiski, and Camila Sampaio Ch 2: Brazilian Churches in London: Transnationalism of the MiddleOlivia Sheringham Ch 3: The ‘Devil’s Egg’: The Football Players as New Missionaries of the Diaspora of Brazilian ReligionsCarmen Rial Ch 4: 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”Dario Paulo Barrera Rivera Ch 5: Catholicism for Export: The Case of Canção NovaBrenda Carranza and Cecília Mariz SECTION II: AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS Ch 6: Umbanda and Batuque in the Southern Cone: Transnationalization as cross-border religious flow and as social fieldAlejandro Frigerio Ch 7: Pretos Velhos across the Atlantic: Afro-Brazilian Religions in PortugalClara Saraiva Ch 8: Transnational Authenticity: An Umbanda Temple in MontrealDeirdre Meintel and Annick Hernandez Ch 9: Japanese Brazilians among Pretos-Velhos, Caboclos, Buddhist Monks and Samurais: An Ethnographic Study of Umbanda in JapanUshi Arakaki Ch 10: Mora Iemanja? Axé in Diasporic Capoeira RegionalNeil Stephens and Sara Delamont SECTION III: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS Ch 11: Building a Transnational Spiritual Community: The John of God Movement in AustraliaCristina Rocha Ch 12: The Valley of Dawn in Atlanta, Georgia: Negotiating Gender Identity and Incorporation in the DiasporaJosé Cláudio Souza Alves and Manuel A. Vásquez Ch 13: The Niche Globalization of Projectiology: Cosmology and Internationalization of a Brazilian ParascienceAnthony Fischer D'Andrea Ch 14: Transcultural keys: Humor, Creativity and other Relational Artifacts in the transposition of a Brazilian Ayahuasca Religion to the NetherlandsAlberto Groisman Dr. Cristina RochaSenior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Communications ArtsUniversity of Western Sydney Editor of The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions (with Manuel Vasquez, Brill, 2013); Buddhism in Australia: Traditions in Change (with Michelle Barker, Routledge, 2010) and author of Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity (Hawaii University Press, 2006).Editor: Journal of Global Buddhismhttp://www.uws.edu.au/religion_and_society/people/researchers/dr_cristina_rocha