Through deep attention to sense and feeling, Go with God grapples with the centrality of Evangelical faith in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, the city's expansive and sprawling peripheral communities. Based on sensory ethnographic fieldwork and attuned to religious desire and manipulation, this book shows how Evangelical belief has changed the way people understand their lives in relation to Brazil's history of violent racial differentiation and inequality. From expressions of otherworldly hope to political exhaustion, Go with God depicts Evangelical life as it is lived and explores where people turn to find grace, possibility, and a future.
Laurie Denyer Willis is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.
ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Ana’s Angels 1. Avowal 2. Disinfectant 3. In Attention to Pain 4. Wolves at the Heels 5. Failures and Demons Conclusion: A Politics of Grace Notes References Index
“Beautifully written. . . . Offers a close engagement with evangelical believers’ (crentes) everyday lives in a western subúrbio of Rio de Janeiro called Batan.”
