Chesnut Born Again

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

Conversion, Crises, Cure and Affliction
points to outreach by crentes as opposed to Catholic Church and Umbanda which expect people to come to them.1 75
main recruitment along family lines.2 77-78
claims healing (86.4 % of his informants experienced some form) plays a far more important role than speaking in tongues (46.8% of informants do it regularly).3 80
success of deliverance in IURD has led other churches to incorporate it.4 83
“Congregants [especially due to irregular marriage circumstances] constitute approximately 40 percent of all those who regularly attend worship services and participate in church activities.5 90