Flàvio Munhoz Sofiati, Religião e juventude. Os novos carismàticos, Editora Ideias&Letras, São Paulo 2013².

O estudo aqui apresentado percorre a maneira como a vitalidade carismática coloniza a o cotidiano de seus jovens seguidores, vertebrando propostas aparentemente “estranhas” à juventude, que oscilam da rigidez doutrinal, no campo sexual, a integração das mais avançadas tecnologias e performances musicais. Numa narrativa fluída, o livro revela insuspeitados mecanismos sociológicos que tecem as tramas do religioso, irrigando o mundo urbano nas grandes cidades. Além disso, o livro de Flávio Sofiati oferece uma compreensão das crises da juventude, em geral, e de suas aspirações religiosas, em particular.

New book:
THE DIASPORA OF BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS
Cristina Rocha & Manuel A. Vásquez

http://www.brill.com/diaspora-brazilian-religions

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), the 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-centered neo-shamanism like Vale do Amanhecer and Santo Daime.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Brazil in the New Global Cartography of Religion Manuel A. Vásquez and Cristina Rocha
SECTION I: BRAZILIAN CHRISTIANITY: CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM
Ch 1: Edir Macedo’s Pastoral Project: A Globally Integrated Pentecostal Network Clara Mafra, Claudia Swatowiski, and Camila Sampaio
Ch 2: Brazilian Churches in London: Transnationalism of the Middle Olivia Sheringham
Ch 3: The ‘Devil’s Egg’: The Football Players as New Missionaries of the Diaspora of Brazilian Religions Carmen Rial
Ch 4: Brazilian Pentecostalism in Peru: Affinities between the Social and Cultural Conditions of Andean Migrants and the Religious Worldview of the Pentecostal Church “God is Love”Dario Paulo Barrera Rivera
Ch 5: Catholicism for Export: The Case of Canção Nova Brenda Carranza and Cecília Mariz

SECTION II: AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS
Ch 6: Umbanda and Batuque in the Southern Cone: Transnationalization as cross-border religious flow and as social field Alejandro Frigerio
Ch 7: Pretos Velhos across the Atlantic: Afro-Brazilian Religions in Portugal Clara Saraiva
Ch 8: Transnational Authenticity: An Umbanda Temple in Montreal Deirdre Meintel and Annick Hernandez
Ch 9: Japanese Brazilians among Pretos-Velhos, Caboclos, Buddhist Monks and Samurais: An Ethnographic Study of Umbanda in Japan Ushi Arakaki
Ch 10: Mora Iemanja? Axé in Diasporic Capoeira Regional Neil Stephens and Sara Delamont

SECTION III: NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
Ch 11: Building a Transnational Spiritual Community: The John of God Movement in Australia Cristina Rocha
Ch 12: The Valley of Dawn in Atlanta, Georgia: Negotiating Gender Identity and Incorporation in the Diaspora José Cláudio Souza Alves and Manuel A. Vásquez
Ch 13: The Niche Globalization of Projectiology: Cosmology and Internationalization of a Brazilian Parascience Anthony Fischer D’Andrea
Ch 14: Transcultural keys: Humor, Creativity and other Relational Artifacts in the transposition of a Brazilian Ayahuasca Religion to the Netherlands Alberto Groisman

Islam in the Hinterlands: Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada Jasmin Zine UBC Press, 2012

http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173665

About the Book
Muslim communities have become increasingly salient in the social, cultural, and political landscape in Canada largely due to the aftermath of 9/11 and the racial politics of the ongoing “war on terror” that have cast Muslims as the new “enemy within.”

Islam in the Hinterlands features empirical studies and critical essays by some of Canada’s top Muslim Studies scholars who examine how gender, public policy, media, and education shape the Muslim experience in Canada. Touching on much-debated issues, such as the shar’ia controversy, veiling in public schools, media portrayals of Muslims, and anti-terrorism legislation, this book takes a distinctly anti-racist, feminist standpoint in exploring the reality of the Muslim diaspora.

A timely collection addressing some of the most hotly contested issues in recent cultural history, Islam in the Hinterlands will be essential reading for academics as well as general readers interested in Islamic studies, multiculturalism, and social justice.

About the Author(s)
Jasmin Zine is an associate professor of sociology and the Muslim Studies Option at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Table of Contents
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Muslim Cultural Politics in the Canadian Hinterlands / Jasmin Zine

Part 1: Gender and Cultural Politics
1 Unsettling the Nation: Gender, Race, and Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada / Jasmin Zine
2 The Great Canadian “Shar’ia” Debate / Itrath Syed
3 Toward a Framework for Investigating Muslim Women and Political Engagement in Canada / Katherine Bullock

Part 2: Media and Representation
4 Colluding Hegemonies: Constructing the Muslim Other Post-9/11 / Yasmin Jiwani
5 Marketing Islamic Reform: Dissidence and Dissonance in a Canadian Context / Meena Sharify-Funk
6 Toward Media Reconstruction of the Muslim Imaginary in Canada: The Case of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie / Aliaa Dakroury

Part 3: Education
7 From Mosques to Madrassas: Civic Engagement and the Pedagogy of Islamic Schools / Nadeem Memon
8 Unveiled Sentiments: Gendered Islamophobia and Experiences of Veiling among Muslim Girls in a Canadian Islamic School / Jasmin Zine

Part 4: Security
9 The Security Certificate Exception: A Media Analysis of Human Rights and Security Discourses in Canada’s Globe and Mail and National Post / Jacqueline Flatt
10 The Anti-terrorism Act and National Security: Safeguarding the Nation against Uncivilized Muslims / Shaista Patel

Contributors
Index

Reviews
“I cannot think of a religious community more in need of study than Canadian Muslims, who have, until now, received scant scholarly attention. This book examines the hybridity of Canadian Islam, and discusses the various ways in which Muslims have, and have not, adapted to their contexts. Timely and cutting-edge, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of religion, sociology, and anthropology, as well as cultural, legal, and gender studies.”
Amir Hussain, Editor, Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Topographies of Faith.
Religion in Urban Spaces

Edited by Irene Becci, Marian Burchardt, and José Casanova

Based on ethnographic explorations in cities across the globe, Topographies of Faith offers a unique and compelling analysis of contemporary religious dynamics in metropolitan centers. While most scholarship on religion still sidelines questions of spatiality and scale, this book creatively draws on perspectives from urban studies to study the spatiality of religion in modern cities. It shows how globalization, transnational migration and urban expansion in big cities engender new religious forms and practices and their spatial underpinnings. Space affects urban religious diversity,religious innovations, decline or vitality. But it also shapes the relationships between religion and social equalities. Spanning distances between New York, Delhi and Johannesburg, the book also engages with issues of secularity and religious vitality in genuinely new ways.

http://www.brill.com/topographies-faith

New Book:
Religion, Migration, Settlement: Reflections on Post-1990 Immigration to Finland
Tuomas Martikainen Brill, 2013

http://www.brill.com/religion-migration-settlement

In Religion, Migration, Settlement, Tuomas Martikainen provides an account of the impact of immigration on the field of religion in Finland since the 1990s. As a historical country of emigration that has turned into one of immigration, Finland provides an illuminating case study of the complexities of post-Cold War migration. The book analyses processes of migrant settlement from the viewpoint of religious organisations by applying theoretical perspectives to immigrant integration, global-local dynamics, governance of religious diversity, processes of migrant settlement and structural adaptation. The book is of relevance to those grappling with the impact of international migration on contemporary religious

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The Construction of Muslim Identities in Contemporary Brazil

Cristina Maria de Castro
Lexington Books, 2013
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739149836

Review

In this fascinating original study, Cristina Maria de Castro presents an insightful overview of the little-known Muslim communities in Brazil and their at times precarious relationship with majority society in the years of the War on Terror and increasing Islamophobia. Extensive fieldwork has given her access to many of the discussions and debates in these communities. I found her analysis of how ‘born’ Muslim women (of Arab and South African origin) and converts negotiate their gender and religious identities vis-à-vis each other and the non-Muslim majority especially of great interest. The author’s comparative research on the Muslim communities of the Netherlands adds a valuable dimension to this study, bringing out more clearly the specificities of the Brazilian situation.
– Martin van Bruinessen, Department of Religious Studies, Utrecht University and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

About the author:
Cristina Maria de Castro is a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). In 2005 and 2007 she acted as a visiting researcher at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, based in Leiden, The Netherlands. In 2007, Castro was approved in a highly competitive selection process to participate in a training program for new PhD researchers in the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning, CEBRAP, one of the most renowned research institutions in Brazil. Articles and book chapters on religion, gender and migration, with emphasis on Muslim minorities, have been published by her in Brazil, the USA and France.

The Sociology of Islam: Collected Essays of Bryan S. Turner

Edited by Bryan S. Turner, The City University of New York, USA and Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Ashgate, 2013
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409462118

Taking a thematic approach, Bryan Turner draws together his writings which explore the relationship between Islam and the ideas of Western social thinkers. Turner engages with the broad categories of capitalism, orientalism, modernity, gender, and citizenship among others, as he examines how Muslims adapt to changing times and how Islam has come to be managed by those in power.

Contents: Preface, Daniel Martin Varisco; Bryan Turner: building the sociology of Islam, Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir; Part I Classical Approaches: Understanding Islam: Introduction, Bryan S. Turner; Islam, capitalism and the Weber theses; Origins and tradition in Islam and Christianity; State, science and economy in traditional societies; Conscience in the construction of religion: a critique of Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam. Part II The Orientalist Debate: Positioning Islam: Introduction, Bryan S. Turner; Orientalism, Islam and capitalism; On the concept of axial space : Orientalism and the originary; Orientalism, or the politics of the text; Leibniz, Islam and cosmopolitan virtue. Part III Islam Today: Sociological Perspectives: Introduction, Bryan S. Turner; ; Sovereignty and emergency: political theology, Islam and American conservatism; Class, generation and Islamism: towards a global sociology of political Islam; religious authority and the new media; Women, piety and space: a study of women and religious practice in Malaysia; The body and piety: the hijab and marriage; Islam, diaspora and multiculturalism; Shari’a and legal pluralism in the West; Appendix; Index.

About the Editor:

Bryan S. Turner is the Presidential Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York where he serves as the Director of the Committee on Religion, and he is concurrently the Director of the Religion and Society Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney. He was awarded a Doctor of Letters by Cambridge University in 2009 and his latest monograph called Religion and Modern Society: Citizenship, Secularisation and the State (Cambridge University Press) appeared in 2011. He is the founding editor of a number of journals (Citizenship Studies, Body & Society and Journal of Classical Sociology) and book series (Muslims in Global Societies for Springer and Religion in Contemporary Asia for Routledge).

Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir received his PhD from the University of Western Sydney in 2011. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the co-author of two books called Muslims as Minorities: History and Social Realities of Muslims in Singapore (National University of Malaysia Press) and Muslims in Singapore: Piety, Politics and Policies (Routledge). His recent articles include “Rethinking the ‘Malay Problem’ in Singapore: Image, Rhetoric and Social Realities” and “Poetic Jihadis: Muslim Youth, Hip-Hop and the Homological Imagination”.

The African Christian Diaspora: New Currents and Emerging Trends in World Christianity

By: Afe Adogame
Published: 2013
ISBN: 9781441112729
London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury Academic

http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-african-christian-diaspora-9781441112729/

About The African Christian Diaspora

The last three decades have witnessed a rapid proliferation of African Christian communities, particularly in Europe and North American diaspora, thus resulting in the remapping of old religious landscapes.
This migratory trend and development bring to the fore the crucial role, functions and import of religious symbolic systems in new geo-cultural contexts. The trans-national linkages between African-led churches in the countries of origin (Africa) and the “host” societies are assuming increasing importance for African immigrants. The links and networks that are established and maintained between these contexts are of immense religious, cultural, economic, political and social importance.
This suggests how African Christianities can be understood within processes of religious transnationalism and African modernity.

Based on extensive religious ethnography undertaken by the author among African Christian communities in Europe, the USA and Africa in the last 17 years, this book maps and describes the incipience and consolidation of new brands of African Christianities in diaspora. The book demonstrates how African Christianities are negotiating and assimilating notions of the global while maintaining their local identities.

Table Of Contents

Preface \ 1. Trajectories of African Migration \ 2. Narratives of African Migration \ 3. Situating the Local Scene(s) \ 4. Historiography of new African Christianities in Diaspora \ 5. A Phenomenology of African Christian Communities in Diaspora \ 6. African Christianities as Social, Cultural and Spiritual Capital \ 7. Negotiation Identity, Citizenship and Power \ 8. Globalization, Media and Transnationalism \ 9. Reverse Mission \ 10. The Politics of Networking \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index

Reviews

“This is an important and impressive work. It is the first book to bring together all that we have learned in recent years about African Christian diasporas in Europe and the United States. Afe Adogame brings to this volume not only his powers of synthesis, but also the fruits of his own research on three continents. He shows how Africans? religious dynamism is changing the environment of the very countries where they are settling.”
– Gerrie ter Haar, Professor Religion and Development, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

“The presence of African Christians and of African churches is being increasingly recognized as an important feature of the Christianity of Europe and North America. That presence is also a manifestation of a greater World Christianity. We owe much gratitude to Dr Adogame for this valuable book, with its comprehensive survey of the development and its useful demostration of the demographic, economic, political and legislative settings.”
– Andrew F Walls, Professor of the History of Missions at Liverpool Hope University, UK and Research Professor at Akrofi-Christaller Institute, Ghana

The Sociology of Religion: A Critical Agenda Second Edition

Grace Davie
University of Exeter

February 2013
328 pages
SAGE Publications Ltd

Why is religion still important? Can we be fully modern and fully religious?  In this new edition, Davie follows up her discussion of the meaning of religion in modern society and considers how best to research and understand this relationship. Exploring the rapid movements within the sociology of religion today, this revised and updated book:

• • Describes the origins of the sociology of religion
• • Demystifies secularization as a process and a theory
• • Relates religion to modern social theory
• • Unpacks the meaning of religion in relation to modernity and globalization
• • Grasps the methodological challenges in the field
• • Provides a comparative perspective for religions in the west
• • Introduces questions of minorities and margins
• • Sets out a critical agenda for debate and research

The Sociology of Religion has already proved itself as one of the most important titles within the field; this edition will ensure that it remains an indispensable resource for students and researchers alike.

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