Transnational Religious Spaces Faith And The Brazilian Migration Experience
Book Description
This illuminating study reveals how faith becomes a bridge between worlds for Brazilian migrants navigating life between London and their homeland. Olivia Sheringham takes readers into the intimate spiritual landscapes of a largely overlooked community, exploring how religious beliefs and practices evolve, adapt, and create meaning across borders.
Rather than treating religion as a static institution, this work examines faith as a living, breathing experience that migrants actively shape and reshape. Through careful attention to personal stories and lived experiences, Sheringham demonstrates how Brazilian migrants in London negotiate their spiritual identities while creating new connections between their adopted city and their country of origin.
The book breaks new ground by following migrants not only during their time abroad but also upon their return to Brazil, offering a complete picture of how transnational religious experiences unfold over time. This dual perspective reveals the dynamic ways people maintain, transform, and reconstruct their faith communities across geographic boundaries.
For readers interested in understanding how spirituality functions in our increasingly connected world, this study offers valuable insights into the role of religion in migration experiences. It sheds light on how faith communities serve as sources of support, identity, and belonging for people living between cultures, while contributing to broader conversations about religion's place in contemporary global society.
Who Is This For?
📖 Reading Level: Medium (200-400 pages) (~6 hours)
📄 Length: 226 pages
What You'll Discover
- ✓ Explore Religion
- ✓ Explore Brazilians
- ✓ Explore Social mobility
- ✓ Explore Society
- ✓ Explore Emigration and immigration
- ✓ Explore London (england), social life and customs
- ✓ Explore Spiritual
- ✓ Explore Latin
