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Laurie Denyer Willis
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Author of Go With God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil.
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Jul 11, 2025
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Laurie Denyer Willis, "Go with God: Political Exhaustion and Evangelical Possibility in Suburban Brazil" (U California Press, 2023)
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Laurie Denyer Willis, a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, shares insights from her book on Evangelical faith in Rio's suburban communities. She discusses how political exhaustion reshapes local engagement and how faith offers a pathway to resilience in the face of state violence. The conversation weaves personal and community narratives, focusing on motherhood's role in fieldwork and the dynamics of empowerment among evangelical women, all amid Brazil's complex sociopolitical landscape.
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