Introduction / Eric Miller and Ronald J. Morgan -- Historical trajectories of Protestantism in Brazil, 1810-1960 / Pedro Feitoza -- Which evangeĢlicos? probing the diversities within Brazilian Protestantism and the case for a "middle way" / Ronald J. Morgan and Henrique Alonso Pereira -- Evangelicals in Brazil : analysis, assessment, challenge / Alexandre Brasil Fonseca -- Evangelicals and the secular state in Brazilian politics: current controversies in perspective / Paul Freston -- What I saw at the revolution / Eric Miller -- Evangelicals and the protests of June 2013 / Eduardo Guilherme de Moura Paegle -- "This precarious life" : the public impact of evangelical churches in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro / Anaxsuell Fernando Silva -- Evangelical feminism in Brazil and the USA / Amy ReynoldsA Christological Gambiarra : Jesus and social engagement in Brazil / Eric G. Flett -- Emerging creation care movement among Brazilian evangelicals / Janine Paden Morgan -- Singing about the creation in Christian worship : the creation of a Christian environmental consciousness / Suzana Azevedo Greenwood -- Environmental sustainability and economic development in Brazil / Vilma Nina Balmaceda -- Missionaries in rowboats? Mission and enculturation -- Marion Brepohl -- Translator translated / Andy Draycott -- In praise of limitations / Jay R. Case -- Afterword / Alexandre Brasil Fonseca.
Summary:
Over the past fifty years Brazil's evangelical community has increased from five to twenty-five percent of the population. This volume's authors use statistical overview, historical narrative, personal anecdote, social-scientific analysis, and theological inquiry to map out this emerging landscape. The book's thematic centre pivots on the question of how Brazilian evangelicals are exerting their presence and effecting change in the public life of the nation. Rather than fixing its focus on the interior life of Brazilian evangelicals and their congregations, the book's attention is directed toward social expression: the ways in which Brazilian evangelicals are present and active in the common life of the nation.
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