Handbook of Contemporary Religions in Brazil
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- Schmidt2
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1163/9789004322134
- Publisher
- BRILL
- ISBN
- 9789004321854
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The Brill Handbook was solicited by the series editor in 2011. After recruiting Engler as co-editor the editors developed a proposal and recruited subsequently scholars from across the world to contribute to the Handbook that provides an unprecedented overview of Brazil’s religious landscape, divided in three parts, religions in Brazil, Brazilian religions in the diaspora, and issues of Brazilian religions. The contributors are recognised specialists, both Brazilian and non-Brazilian. The editors commented substantially on draft chapters, some of them written in Portuguese. It is the first time that a single volume offers overviews by leading scholars of the range of Brazilian religions alongside more theoretically oriented discussions of relevant religious and cultural themes. In addition to a chapter on spirit possession which is an extension of the monograph to the same topic, Schmidt also co-wrote with Engler the introduction which contextualises the religious landscape of Brazil historically as well as presents the historiography of the study of religions in Brazil. It underlies the key theme of the handbook, that religions and ‘religion’ should be studied in context, by situation cases in relation to historical, social, cultural, economic and political specificities.
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- Non-English
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