Transnational Pentecostal Connections

• DOI: 10.1558/ptcs.v12i1.62
• Publication Date: 2015-03-20T02:03:58Z
• Authors: Cristina Rocha
• Keywords: Hybridity; Admiration

The paper analyses transnational flows of Pentecostalism between Australia and Brazil. It the establishment CNA, a Brazilian church that caters for increasing number students in Sydney. also investigates ways which Hillsong, an Australian Pentecostal megachurch, has influenced CNA been alluring young Brazilians to Australia. Scholars have paid little attention how religious institutions host country may influence rituals facilitate new church. I argue churches created by migrants are not established deterritorialized diasporic vacuum. Reterritorialization engenders hybridity. Following admiration due being part English-speaking developed world, is hybrid conservative Baptist very informal Hillsong contend it precisely this hybridity makes adhere since works as effective bridge cultures. Furthermore, demonstrates polycentric nature Pentecostalism, becoming centre dissemination Hillsong-style