Brinkerhoff

links the growing pentecostalism in Brazil and L. America with urbanization.¹ (43)

on mainline churches being considered evangelical in Brazil he links this with the fact that many of those missionaries who came to Brazil came from the more evangelical wing of these denominations. (²44)

indicates that protestant growth comes mainly at the expense of Catholicism ³(50)

social links and family networks shown to be of fundamental importance⁴ (50-51)

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sees charismatic catholicism as a rival for Pentecostalism ⁵(58)

1 MB Brinkerhoff & RW Bibby, ‘Circulation of the saints in South America : a comparative study’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 24:1 (1985)), 39—55.

2 MB Brinkerhoff & RW Bibby, ‘Circulation of the saints in South America : a comparative study’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 24:1 (1985)), 39—55, 44.

3 MB Brinkerhoff & RW Bibby, ‘Circulation of the saints in South America : a comparative study’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 24:1 (1985)), 39—55, 50

4 MB Brinkerhoff & RW Bibby, ‘Circulation of the saints in South America : a comparative study’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 24:1 (1985)), 39—55, 50—51.

5 MB Brinkerhoff & RW Bibby, ‘Circulation of the saints in South America : a comparative study’, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 24:1 (1985)), 39—55, 58.