Ethnic Buddhism in comparative Perspective:The legacy of Japanese Missions in Brazil
Keywords:
Christianity, Shintoism, nikkei, immigration, social networksAbstract
After having contextualized the immigration flows between Japan and Brazil, the article focusses on the history and sociology of Christianity among Japanese-Brazilians. As for the younger generations Brazilian Catholicism tended to substitute Shintoism in terms of a religious orientation fostering national identity. On the other hand, statistical data indicate that among decasségui, that is, Japanese descendants born Brazil who returned to Japan as foreign workers, Pentecostalism is on the rise. In order to explain the growing popularity of Pentecostalism, the article refers to approaches suggested by the economy of religion, including the social-network-theory. This conceptual basis even allows some speculations about the future of Christianity and other religions among the Brazilian foreign workers in Japan
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