Religious conflict in Brazil. Protestants, Catholics, and the rise of religious pluralism in the early twentieth century.

This is a history of religious confrontation, in which Evangelical minorities sought to disrupt the centuries-long Catholic hegemony from below while the hierarchy of the Church put forward a "Restorationist" agenda, aimed at recovering its social, political and cultural authority. Their desire for authority and respectability clashed with the Protestant aspiration for Evangelical diffusion in unexpected ways, reframing the contours of the religious landscape of the country. Helgen reconstructs the anti-Protestant arguments and actions of Restorationist Catholics between the 1920s and 1940s. [Extracted from the article]