Cavalcanti Paths

European missions tended to take a sponsored, monopolistic approach; whereas American missions took a competitive approach¹ (383)

"While colonial churches were compatible with other transplanted social institutions in Asia and Africa, in Latin America there was a clear gap between the culture behind the exported faith and local culture."² (383)

Southern Baptist Convention: i) church planting ii) voluntaristic iii)focus on conversion iv) emphasis on the need for free-thinking educated citizenry / Presbyterian Missions: i) denomination building ii) religious education iii) freedom, capitalism and progress³ (385)

both emphasized the need for orthodoxy and asceticism in ethics⁴ (385) both shared a critique of Catholicism "They argued that Brazilian Catholicism lacked the spiritual power to lead Brazilians to real progress."⁵ (385)

Describes the growth of the Baptist work until the Brazilian Baptist convention was founded in 1907⁶ (385)

schools did not create many converts but fostered greater tolerance for Protestantism⁷ (386)

WWII and COld War--> Brazil comes under American influence...Period of Brazilian growth and instability; two paths for missionaries i) follow denominational strategy ii) engage with Brazilian social problems ⁸(386-387)

Baptist Crabtree: conformity to denominational strategy; remembered as a model pastor/churchman⁹ (388-390)

Presbyterian Schaull--> emphasis on how concern with social justice and transformation ended in conflict with church authority and termination of mission stint ¹⁰(390-392)

Presents Crabtree as a model of diffusion in which host culture is transported and Schaull as a model of acculturation¹¹ (393-394)

1H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 383.

2H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 383.

3H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 385.

4H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 385.

5H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 385.

6H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 385.

7H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 386.

8H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 386–387.

9H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 388–390.

10H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 390–392.

11H Cavalcanti, “Human Agency in Mission Work: Missionary Styles and Their Political Consequences,” Sociology of Religion 66:4 (2005) 381–398, 393–394.