Conclusion. The schism of the Spirit : the Pentecostal digression and the breaking of institutional unity -- Sourthern Baptist missions and world Christianity -- Shaping local subjects : Confederate exiles, southern missionaries, and early institutional development -- Nationalism and the radical reaction against missionary domination -- Struggling for holy power : missionary strategies for maintaining leadership -- The schism of the Spirit : the Pentecostal digression and the breaking of institutional unity -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"In 'The global mission of the Jim Crow south', Joao B. Chaves analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern Baptist Convention missionaries in the largest Latin American country shaped aspects of Latin American evangelicalism in general and the Brazilian Baptist Convention in particular. Partially because the Brazilian Baptist Convention sent missionaries to many Latin American countries, established educational institutions that trained ministers from a number of denominations, and impacted the life of Brazilian evangelicalism in general, the influences of Southern evangelicalism manifested in the Brazilian Baptist Convention were established into latin American evangelicalism broadly. Although Latin American evangelicalism is a diverse movement both in its Pentecostal and non-Pentecostal manifestations, historians have tended to overloook the power of US evangelicalism in the establishment and maintenance of the evangelicalism in the region, preferring to offer sharp distinctions between the US-based 'evangelical' movement and Latin American 'evangélicos'. This book recognizes that such distinctions may explain cases in which differences between US and Latin American evangelicalism exist, but it argues that a hemispheric evangelicalism overdetermined by the commitments of US Southern evangelicals has broader explanatory power." -- Publisher, page four of cover.
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