Over the past fifty years Brazil's evangelical community has increased from five to twenty-five
percent of the population. This volume's authors use statistical overview historical narrative
personal anecdote social-scientific analysis and theological inquiry to map out this emerging
landscape. The book's thematic center pivots on the question of how Brazilian evangelicals are
exerting their presence and effecting change in the public life of the nation. Rather than
fixing its focus on the interior life of Brazilian evangelicals and their congregations the
book's attention is directed toward social expression: the ways in which Brazilian evangelicals
are present and active in the common life of the nation.
