This award-winning book is the first ethnographic account of the global spiritual movement headed by the Brazilian faith healer John of God. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork in Brazil, Australia, Germany and New Zealand, Rocha shows that this spiritual movement provides a rich and important case study of religious globalization because it embodies themes that are central to faith and healing in the 21st century. This volume explores the ways in which religion is both globalized and localized in late modernity, the establishment of transnational communities of belief, the transformation of poor rural areas into sites of globalization, the efficacy of healing across cultures, and the prominent place of healing (of the body, the spirit and the planet) and its intimate connection with spirituality and religion in late modernity.

Widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Christian nation, Brazil has experienced in recent years a growth in the popularity of Buddhism among the urban, cosmopolitan upper classes. Drawing on fieldwork in Japan and Brazil, Rocha argues that in practicing Zen, the Brazilian intellectual elites from the 1950s onward have been driven by a desire to distinguish themselves from popular taste at home while at the same time associating themselves with overseas cultural elites. In the 1990s, Tibetan and Zen Buddhism were adopted by national elites, the media, and popular culture as a set of humanistic values to counter the rampant violence and crime in Brazilian society. Innovative and cross-disciplinary in its approach, Zen in Brazil will appeal to scholars in the fields of religion, globalization, migration, Buddhism, and Asian and Latin American studies, as well as to those interested in anthropology of religion and cultural studies.

Widely perceived as an overwhelmingly Christian nation, Brazil has experienced in recent years a growth in the popularity of Buddhism among the urban, cosmopolitan upper classes. Drawing on fieldwork in Japan and Brazil, Rocha argues that in practicing Zen, the Brazilian intellectual elites from the 1950s onward have been driven by a desire to distinguish themselves from popular taste at home while at the same time associating themselves with overseas cultural elites. In the 1990s, Tibetan and Zen Buddhism were adopted by national elites, the media, and popular culture as a set of humanistic values to counter the rampant violence and crime in Brazilian society. Innovative and cross-disciplinary in its approach, Zen in Brazil will appeal to scholars in the fields of religion, globalization, migration, Buddhism, and Asian and Latin American studies, as well as to those interested in anthropology of religion and cultural studies.

This edited collection argues that Australia has made and still makes important contributions to how Pentecostal and charismatic Christianities have developed worldwide. Australian Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements fills a critical gap in two important scholarly literatures. The first is the Australian literature on religion, in which the absence of the charismatic and Pentecostal element tends to reinforce now widely debunked notions of Australia as lacking the religious tendencies of old Europe. The second is the emerging transnational literature on Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. This book enriches our understanding not only of how these movements spread worldwide but also how they are indigenised and grow new shoots in very diverse contexts.

The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil, a country that has emerged as a major pole of religious innovation and production. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, ranging from the Americas (Canada, the U.S., Peru, and Argentina) and Europe (the U.K., Portugal, and the Netherlands) to Asia (Japan) and Oceania (Australia), this edited book examines the conditions, actors, and media that have made possible the worldwide construction, circulation, and consumption of Brazilian religious identities, practices, and lifestyles, including those connected with indigenized forms of Pentecostalism and Catholicism, African-based religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda, as well as diverse expressions of New Age Spiritism such as the John of God Movement, and Ayahuasca-centred neo-shamanism like Vale do Amanhecer and Santo Daime.

The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions explores the global spread of religions originating in Brazil, a country that has emerged as a major pole of religious innovation and production. Through ethnographically-rich case studies throughout the world, ranging from the Americas (Canada, the U.S., Peru, and Argentina) and Europe (the U.K., Portugal, and the Netherlands) to Asia (Japan) and Oceania (Australia), this edited book examines the conditions, actors, and media that have made possible the worldwide construction, circulation, and consumption of Brazilian religious identities, practices, and lifestyles, including those connected with indigenized forms of Pentecostalism and Catholicism, African-based religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda, as well as diverse expressions of New Age Spiritism such as the John of God Movement, and Ayahuasca-centred neo-shamanism like Vale do Amanhecer and Santo Daime.

This edited book analyses the arrival and localisation of Buddhism in Australia in the context of the globalisation of Buddhism. Australia's close geographical proximity to Asia has encouraged an intense flow of people, ideas, practices and materialities from its neighbouring countries. This has meant that Buddhism in Australia is somewhat different to other Western countries. In this volume, academic analysis and practitioners' experiences are juxtaposed to show the adaptations and challenges of Buddhism in Australia from above and below. This book is a unique and valuable contribution to the study of Buddhism in the West, globalization of religion, and Asian studies.