Global Mission of the Jim Crow (Perspectives on Baptist Identities)

Global Mission of the Jim Crow (Perspectives on Baptist Identities)

"In 'The global mission of the Jim Crow south', Joao B. Chaves analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern Baptist Convention missionaries in the largest Latin American country shaped aspects of Latin American evangelicalism in general and the Brazilian Baptist Convention in particular. Partially because the Brazilian Baptist Convention sent missionaries to many Latin American countries, established educational institutions that trained ministers from a number of denominations, and impacted the life of Brazilian evangelicalism in general, the influences of Southern evangelicalism manifested in the Brazilian Baptist Convention were established into Latin American evangelicalism broadly. Although Latin American evangelicalism is a diverse movement both in its Pentecostal and non-Pentecostal manifestations, historians have tended to overlook the power of US evangelicalism in the establishment and maintenance of the evangelicalism in the region, preferring to offer sharp distinctions between the US-based 'evangelical' movement and Latin American 'evangâelicos'. This book recognizes that such distinctions may explain cases in which differences between US and Latin American evangelicalism exist, but it argues that a hemispheric evangelicalism overdetermined by the commitments of US Southern evangelicals has broader explanatory power." -- João B. Chaves is assistant director for Programming at the Hispanic Theological Initiative, housed at Princeton Theological Seminary. He holds an MTS from George W. Truett Theological Seminary and a PhD in Religion from Baylor University. Chaves is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, as well as three books, including MIGRATIONAL RELIGION: CONTEXT AND CREATIVITY IN THE LATINX DIASPORA (2021).