ES Abumanssur, 'Crisis as Opportunity"

ES Abumanssur, 'Crisis as Opportunity: Church Structure in Times of Global Transformations Religion within a context of globalisation: the case of Brazil', Revista de Estudos da Religião 3 (2002), 76–85.

"Protestantism, in Brazil, is not a religion that has roots in the country's traditional culture. It was imported from Europe and the United States in the 19th Century and for 150 years remained somewhat exogenous, impervious to popular culture, alien to the sensitivities of a mysticism comprised of a mixture of elements from African and indigenous cosmovisions as well as from a rustic and magical Catholicism."¹

Refers to two waves of Protestant arrival, the immigrant, ethnic churches and the latter missionary churches ²

Immigrant churches, separate from host culture³ Missionary churches, atagonistic towards Brazilian culture "Those churches that saw themselves as a means of saving the world opened channels of communication with local cultures principally in order to define differences and highlight the benefits of opting for Protestantism. It was a relationship based on antagonism and opposition towards everything that could be perceived as having links with the roots of Brazilian culture. It was within the context of such antagonism and theawareness of being a minority that the identity of the Brazilian Protestant was formed."⁴

1ES Abumanssur, 'Crisis as Opportunity: Church Structure in Times of Global Transformations Religion within a context of globalisation: the case of Brazil', Revista de Estudos da Religião 3 (2002), 76–85, 77.

2ES Abumanssur, 'Crisis as Opportunity: Church Structure in Times of Global Transformations Religion within a context of globalisation: the case of Brazil', Revista de Estudos da Religião 3 (2002), 76–85, 77.

3ES Abumanssur, 'Crisis as Opportunity: Church Structure in Times of Global Transformations Religion within a context of globalisation: the case of Brazil', Revista de Estudos da Religião 3 (2002), 76–85,78.

4ES Abumanssur, 'Crisis as Opportunity: Church Structure in Times of Global Transformations Religion within a context of globalisation: the case of Brazil', Revista de Estudos da Religião 3 (2002), 76–85, 78.