(New perspectives on the globalization of the Brazilian religious field)

In the past decade there has been a burgeoning scholarship on the global circulation of Brazilian religions in all its forms – from Pentecostal churches to Indigenous religions to New Age movements to Afro-Brazilian religions (Dawson, 2013; Labate et al., 2017; Oosterbaan et al., 2020; Rocha and Vásquez, 2013; Rocha, 2017; Schmidt and Engler, 2016; Van de Kamp, 2016). To a less extent, researchers have focused on the arrival of religions in Brazil (Castro and Dawson, 2017; Rocha, 2006; Topel, 2011). Yet others have explored the Atlantic not only as a space of passage but as one of religious, cultural and identity formation (Naro et al., 2007), and of ‘creativity, imagination, recreation and memory’ (Balkenhol et al., 2019: 1). In these two volumes on the Atlantic, Brazil features as one of the prime nodes of religious vibrancy within colonial and current routes in a network of sites