Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book demonstrates the religions of immigrants not only meet and overcome difficulties imposed by the post-migratory challenges of religious reterritorialization vary according to a range of practical and symbolic variables but also contribute to the formation of a richer and more plural local religious field. It reveals the post-migratory experience of Christians outside the mainstream traditions of Catholicism and Protestantism furnish valuable insights into the variegated dynamics of transnational migration and its attendant processes of practical-symbolic transformation. The book focuses upon a range of developments, issues, and themes implicated in the experience of post-migratory reterritorialization as originary migrant communities and subsequent generations establish themselves in and incrementally adapt to their new host nation, in this case, Brazil. It also focuses on various processes and dynamics that exemplify the contemporary religious mobility typical of Brazil's global-modern character.