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Power to become involved in politics but pessimism about efficacy of political action¹ (66)

"In general, it can be said that such interest as Pentecostals show in Politics is of a piece with Brazilian political life as a whole: votes given by clients to patrons for services rendered"² (67)

"more black people among Pentecostals than other denominations."³ (67)

Umbanda as main rival of Pentecostalism⁴ (68)

Initial recruits of Umbanda similar to initial recruits of historical Protestantism⁵ (69)

initial "whitening" of Umbanda later to be reversed. "The ambibalence of Umbanda towards blackness both masks and perpetuates, racial prejudices....its whole cosmology was a reflection of patronage, mediation and decentralization."⁶ (69)

Both Umbanda and Pentecostalism benefit from acceptance of alternative medicine in Brazil⁷ (69)

Surprising fact that CEB members and Pentecostals have similar voting patterns⁸ (70)

In contrast to Argentina where the was a large Italian Catholic community which allowed a diaspora Catholicism..." So, many Brazilain Italians felt sufficiently alien to reform themselves both socially and religiously, and convert to Protestantism."⁹ (75)

"Those churches who foster a dry concern with dogma at the expense of spiritual dynamic and freedom remain relatively ineffective."¹⁰ (76)

1D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 66.

2D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 67.

3D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 67.

4D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 68.

5D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 69.

6D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 69.

7D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 69.

8D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 70.

9D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 75.

10D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America,(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) 76.