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Transnational Religious Spaces

Faith and the Brazilian Migration Experience

Palgrave Macmillan

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Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Olivia Sheringham
      Pages 1-20
  3. Theoretical and Contextual Frames

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. The Brazilian ‘diaspora’

      • Olivia Sheringham
      Pages 23-49
    3. Global, Transnational, and Everyday Religion

      • Olivia Sheringham
      Pages 50-74
  4. Living Religion Transnationally among Brazilians in London and ‘Back Home’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
    2. Transnational Congregations

      • Olivia Sheringham
      Pages 77-110
    3. Narratives of Religion as Lived (Transnationally)

      • Olivia Sheringham
      Pages 147-176
    4. Conclusions

      • Olivia Sheringham
      Pages 177-187
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 188-226

About this book

This book explores the role of religion in the lives of Brazilian migrants in London and on their return 'back home'. Working with the notion of religion as lived experience, it moves beyond rigid denominational boundaries and examines how and where religion is practiced in migrants' everyday lives.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Oxford, UK

    Olivia Sheringham

About the author

Olivia Sheringham is a Researcher at the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK, and is on the Executive Committee of the Brazilians to the UK Research Group (GEB). She has published work in journals including Portuguese Studies and Geography Compass and has written chapters for a number of published and forthcoming edited collections.

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