ABSTRACT
The historical perception of Brazil as a land of immigration and missions has been problematized since the end of the twentieth century, when waves of immigrants moved abroad and different types of churches and religious movements created in Brazil and by Brazilians began to send missionaries to other countries. This chapter discusses the type of relationship that exists between outflows of missionaries and migrants. It describes that both result from the process of globalization, which has stimulated and sometimes required individuals to make the most diverse types of movements. The chapter highlights an elective affinity between the contemporary context and pneumatic religions. There are, however, still relatively few studies on Brazilian missionaries, and the chapter identifies three dominant discourses that infuse the meaning of missionary activity by Brazilians abroad: reverse mission, non-Christian countries and supporting migrants. The life experience and subjective results of living as a missionary or a migrant might, however, be similar.
