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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Starting Again
  • 2. Religion and Politics in Campo Alegre
  • Competition for a Fiesta
  • The Fiesta
  • The Town as Melange
  • The Politics of Melange
  • 3. The Crentes
  • Severino
  • Teresa and Ze
  • Valdo and Madalena
  • 4. The Assembly of God
  • Rituals of Church and Sect
  • The Politics of Pentecostalism in Campo Alegre
  • The Politics of Pentecostalism in Brazil
  • Campo Alegre Crentes and the Interpreters of Pentecostalism
  • 5. The Afro-Brazilian Spiritists: Against the Stream
  • Pai Fulo's Group
  • Maria Pretinha's Group
  • 6. The Afro-Brazilian Spiritists: The Mainstream?
  • Dona Rosaria's Group
  • Dona Paula and Her Clients
  • Toward a Typology of Afro-Brazilian Spiritism
  • 7. The Catholics
  • Padre Eduardo
  • Padre Eduardo and Carlos
  • Padre Cicero, Pedro Faro, and Padre Eduardo
  • Angelita
  • Padre Eduardo's Project
  • The Communitarian Project of the Catholic Church in Brazil
  • 8. The Kingdoms Come
  • Skepticism from On High and Skepticism from the Field
  • Religion and the Deepening of Democracy
  • The National Security Code and Grass-roots Religions
  • Religious Groups, Their Viability, and the Religious Constructions of Politics
  • The Saturday Feira Crises of Faith and Their Resolution
  • Appendix.