Cavalcanti ctd

Both American Presbyterians and Southern Baptists drew missionaries from the same region¹ (424)

"American missionaries were exporting a jingoistic faith...United States as a beacon of progress, the new Jerusalem...America's success was attributed to Protestantism... US strength stemmed from the rational, enlightened form of Protestantism practiced by the nation."² (424-425)

Missionaries saw L. America as "backward" and "unenlightened", blamed on Catholicism³ (425)

Missionaries part of invasive cultural force brought by capitalist expansion⁴

1H Cavalcanti, “The Right Faith at the Right Time? Determinants of Protestant Mission Success in the 19th-Century Brazilian Religious Market,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41, no. 3 (September 2002): 423-438, 424.

2H Cavalcanti, “The Right Faith at the Right Time? Determinants of Protestant Mission Success in the 19th-Century Brazilian Religious Market,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41, no. 3 (September 2002): 423-438, 424–425.

3H Cavalcanti, “The Right Faith at the Right Time? Determinants of Protestant Mission Success in the 19th-Century Brazilian Religious Market,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41, no. 3 (September 2002): 423-438, 425.

4H Cavalcanti, “The Right Faith at the Right Time? Determinants of Protestant Mission Success in the 19th-Century Brazilian Religious Market,” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 41, no. 3 (September 2002): 423-438, 425.