Chesnut Born Again

RA Chesnut, Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty, (London: Rutgers University Press, 1997)

A Prophetic History
“With little access to the city's precarious health care facilities and neglected by the Catholic church, many ill Belenenses and their families came to the Assemblies of God as a last resort.”1 (28)
refers to trips made by Berg and Vingren to the Southeast and the change of HQ to RJ in 1930.2 (29)
Swedish leaders decision to nationalise the church in 1930.3 (30)
Although CC growth was faster in the earlier years it was also highly regionalised, whereas by 1940 AoG had spread to all states and territories.4 (31)
Persecution of Protestants in Vargas era; Neo-Christendom, stoning of churches but few lost their lives.5 (33)
National Evangelisation Crusade--> novelty; wide press coverage, collective healing sessions.6 (35) Followed by resistance from Pentecostal leaders so that Williams founded Crusade Church which then became IEQ.7 (36)
Use of sertanejo rhythms helped Manoel de Mello's success amongst Northeastern migrants.8 (37)
Exorcism a major feature of Deus e Amor church including calling upon evil spirits from Umbanda to be collectively exorcised by congregation.9 (38-39)
“Unlike the omnipresent Jesus and Holy Spirit of Pentecostal churches, the saints of popular Catholicism tend to be fixed to particular locales and do not travel easily.”10 (40)
claims that many Pentecostal leaders because women can use it to challenge the authority of the pastors.11 (43)
“Middle class Pentecostals in the Central Temple and larger churches had little tolerance for the rustic Portuguese of unlettered preachers.”12 (43)
prefers the term postmodern to neo-pentecostal as the latter does not allow one to distinguish between the modern BPC and IEQ and the IURD.13 (45)
claims that prosperity theology was imported from the US.14 (47) refers to a “five keys of prosperity change in an IEQ church.15 (178 note 18)