Books
Jesus Loves Japan: Return Migration and Global Pentecostalism in a Brazilian Diaspora.
My first book based on the fieldwork among Japanese-Brazilian migrants and their Pentecostal churches in Japan was published in June 2019 from Stanford University Press.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2019. From Slaves to Agents: Pentecostal Ethic and Precarious Labor among Brazilian Migrants in Toyota, Japan. Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 87(3): 791-823.
Abstract and Article Link on Oxford Academic Website
2017. Accompanied Self: Debating Pentecostal Individual and Japanese Relational Selves in Transnational Japan. Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. 45(1): 3-23.
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2017. Back to the Present: The ‘Temporal Tandem’ of Migration and Conversion among Pentecostal Nikkei Brazilians in Japan. Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology. 82(4): 758- 783.
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2017. From Ethnic Religion to Generative Selves: Pentecostalism among Nikkei Brazilian Migrants in Japan. Contemporary Japan. 2(29): 214-229. (Contribution to the special issue “Squared Diaspora: Representations of the Japanese Diaspora Across Time and Space.”)
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