Paul Freston

Professor and Chair of Religion and Politics in the Global Context at Wilfred Laurier University

Pentecostalism and Politics in Brazil: An Emerging Player in an Emerging Power

Monday, March 3rd at 4pm@ CURA, 10 Lenox St. Brookline, MA 02446

Paul Freston is a sociologist of religion, and one of the world’s most celebrated and accomplished scholars on Latin American religions, global Evangelicalism, and Christian-based politics. He is the CIGI Chair in Religion and Politics in Global Context at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Wilfrid Laurier University. He is also professor of sociology on the post-graduate program in social science at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil. His research has focused on, among other things, religion and democratization, the growth of Pentecostalism in the global south, and questions of religion and globalization. His books include Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Protestant Political Parties: a Global Survey (Ashgate, 2004); and Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Click here for Professor Freston’s summary of his talk.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Departments of Anthropology and International Relations