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

Almeida ctd

AOG temples on main roads and favelas "estrutura interna organizada a partir de redes familiares muitas delas montadas no processo migratório" ¹(22)

IURD--> main road, large temples and cathedrals; emphasis on visibility and marketing² (23)

Although common to claim that the IURD had become the largest evangelical church 2000 census shows it 4th behind AoG; Baptists and Congregacao Crista ³(23)

Evangelical--->community--->building; IURD--->building (often near bus terminals and commercial centres)---> Converts⁴ (24)

IURD--> caixa único similar to RCC; movement away from congregational community to a spiritual support centre ⁵(

1R Almeida, “ Religião na Metrópole Paulista,” Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 19:56 (2004) 15–27, 22.

2R Almeida, “ Religião na Metrópole Paulista,” Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 19:56 (2004) 15–27, 23.

3R Almeida, “ Religião na Metrópole Paulista,” Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 19:56 (2004) 15–27, 23.

4R Almeida, “ Religião na Metrópole Paulista,” Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 19:56 (2004) 15–27, 24.

5R Almeida, “ Religião na Metrópole Paulista,” Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais 19:56 (2004) 15–27, 24.