Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus: A Study of Judaizing Evangelicals in Brazil Test Bank

A Growing Religious Trend

An unexpected fusion of two major western religious traditions, Judaism and Christianity, has been developing in many parts of the world.

Investigating the Phenomenon

Becoming Jewish, Believing in Jesus is the first in-depth ethnography to investigate this growing worldwide religious tendency in the global South.

A Case Study in Brazil

Focusing on an austere ‘Judaizing Evangelical’ variant in Brazil, Carpenedo explores the surprising identification with Jews and Judaism by people with exclusively Charismatic Evangelical backgrounds.

Key Findings

• The historical, religious, and subjective reasons behind this growing trend in Charismatic Evangelicalism.
• The emergence of groups that simultaneously embrace Orthodox Jewish rituals and lifestyles and preserve Charismatic Evangelical religious symbols and practices.
• The implications for our understanding of what it means to be ‘Jewish’ or ‘Christian’ in today’s religious landscape.

This comprehensive account of how former Charismatic Evangelicals in Brazil are gradually becoming austerely observant ‘Jews,’ while continuing to believe in the divinity of Jesus, represents a significant contribution to the study of religious conversion, cultural change, and debates about religious hybridization processes.