Research Project: Exploring the Transnational Dimension of Brazilian Pentecostal Churches in Mozambique

Various Pentecostal churches, preachers of Brazilian origin and elements of Brazilian cultural styles have become influential, and provide Pentecostalism in Mozambique with a transnational dimension that is oriented on South-South relations. In this research an actor perspective is connected with a structural perspective; the Pentecostal churches’ attitudes towards their cultural and social context and the members’ trajectories of conversion are studied in their relatedness. The project is part of a comparative study in four continents about conversion careers and culture politics in Pentecostalism, funded by the research program ‘The Future of the Religious Past’ of the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research.

For more information (e.g. field reports) see:

http://pentecost.religionresearch.org/?page_id=34

http://hollenwegercenter.net/log.html