Dr Cristina Rocha
Dr Cristina Rocha teaches at the School of Humanities and Languages and is a member of the RSRC. She is the editor of the Journal of Global Buddhism. Her research areas are: globalisation, religion, transnationalism and cross-cultural negotiations, with a particular interest in the cultural traffic between Japan, Brazil and Australia. She is currently researching Brazilian migrants in Australia and Australian followers of the Brazilian Spiritist healer John of God (João de Deus).
Qualifications
2004 PhD, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia
1998-1999 PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of São Paulo, Brazil
1996 M.Phil. (by dissertation), School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil
1986 BSocSc. School of Social Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Honours and Awards
2007, Top forty researchers by publications (2004-2006) triennium, UWS.
1995, First prize at the National Contest of Essays - celebrating the 100th Year Friendship Treaty Brazil-Japan (1895-1995) promoted by the University of São Paulo and Association for the Exchange Brazil-Japan. Prize consisted of publication of essay in Japanese and Portuguese, and trip to Japan to speak at Sophia University, Tokyo.
Selected Publications
Books
Rocha, C. (In Preparation), Seeking Healing in Brazil: John of God and the Globalisation of Spiritism.
Rocha, C. and Manuel Vasquez (2013 Forthcoming): The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions (opens in a new window), Leiden: Brill.
Rocha, C. & Barker, M. 2010, Buddhism in Australia: Traditions in Change, London: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism series.
Rocha, C, 2006, Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity (opens in a new window), Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
Book Chapters
Rocha, C. and M. Vasquez (2013 Forthcoming), "Introduction" in C. Rocha and M. Vasquez (eds), The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions, Leiden: Brill.
Rocha, C. (2013 Forthcoming), "Building a Transnational Spiritual Community: The John of God Movement in Australia", in C. Rocha and M. Vasquez (eds), The Diaspora of Brazilian Religions, Leiden: Brill.
Rocha, C. (2013 Forthcoming), "Zen in Brazil: Cannibalizing Orientalist Flows", in E. Camayd-Freixas (ed.) Orientalism and Identity in Latin America: Fashioning Self and Others from the (Post) Colonial Margin, University of Arizona Press.
Rocha, C. (2012 Forthcoming), "John of God and the Casa de Dom Inácio: Westerners at a Brazilian Spiritual Hospital", in C Moreman (ed) The Spiritualist Movement: Speaking with the Dead in America and Around the World, Westport, CT: Praeger.
Rocha, C. 2012, "Becoming a Global Village: The Impact of the John of God Pilgrimage in Abadiânia", in N. Hyndman-Rizik (ed.), Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation: constructions of the sacred and secular in late modernity, Cambridge Scholars Press.
Rocha, C. 2012, "Buddhism and Globalisation", in D. McMahan (ed.), Buddhism in the Modern World, UK: Routledge
Rocha, C. 2010, "The Brazilian Imaginaire of Zen: Global Influences, Rhizomatic Forms", in V. Altglas (ed.) Religion and Globalization: Critical Concepts in Social Studies, a Reader, UK: Routledge.
Rocha, C. 2010, ‘'Can I Put This Jizô Together with the Virgin Mary in the Altar?': Creolizing Zen Buddhism in Brazil’, in, Williams, D. & Moriya, T. (eds), Issei Buddhism in the Americas, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, Chicago, pp 5-26.
Rocha, C. 2009, ‘Conexiones Sur-Sur: Vivir entre Australia y Brasil’, in, Solé, C., Parella, S. & Cavalcanti, L. (eds), Nuevos Retos del Transnacionalismo en el Estudio de las Migraciones, Barcelona, pp 113-127.
Rocha, C. 2009, ‘A Sotoshu no Brasil: missionarios nikkeis e nao nikkeis’, in, Sagawa, R. (ed.), O Nikkei Abrasleirado, Assis, pp 85-112.
Rocha, C. 2008, excerpts from ‘Zen Buddhism in Brazil: Japanese or Brazilian?’, in, Peterson, A. & Vasquez, M. (eds), Latin American Religions: Histories and Documents in Context, New York: NYU Press. (Formerly in: 2000, Journal of Global Buddhism, 1: 31-60).
Rocha, C. 2007, ‘The Brazilian Imaginaire of Zen: Global Influences, Rhizomatic Forms’, in, Pereira, R. & Matsuoka, H. (eds), Japanese Religions in and Beyond the Japanese Diaspora, Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, pp 146-169.
Rocha, C. 2006, ‘Spiritual Tourism: Brazilian Faith Healing Goes Global’, in, Swatos, W. H. (ed.), On the Road to Being There: Studies in Pilgrimage and Tourism, Leiden: Brill, pp. 105-123.
Rocha, C. 2006, ‘Two Faces of God: Religion and Social Class in the Brazilian Diaspora in Sydney’, in, Kumar, P. P. (ed.), Religious Pluralism in the Diaspora, Leiden: Brill, pp 147-160.
Rocha, C. 2002, ‘“Se Você se Deparar com Buda, Mate Buda!” – Reflexões sobre a reapropriação do Zen-budismo no Brasil’, in, Usarski, F. (ed.), O Budismo no Brasil – Uma religião entre tradição e adoção, São Paulo: Lorosae, pp 221-251.
Rocha, C. 2001, ‘Catholicism and Zen Buddhism: A Vision of the Religious Field in Brazil’, in, Cusack, C. & Oldmeadow, P. (eds), The End of Religion? Religion in an Age of Globalisation, Sydney Studies in Religion Series, Sydney: University of Sydney, pp 249-265.
Rocha, C. 2000, ‘Tea Ceremony in Japan and its Appropriation in Brazil: A Metaphor of the Japanese Spirit’, in, Dekker, T., Helsloot, J. & Wijers, C. (eds), Roots and Rituals: The Construction of Ethnic Identities, Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, pp 527-537.
Journal Articles (2007-2012)
Rocha C. (2013 Forthcoming) 'Transnational Pentecostal Connections: an Australian Megachurch and a Brazilian Church in Australia', Penteco Studies, 12 (1).
Rocha C. 2011, 'Establishing the John of God Movement in Australia: Healing, Hybridity and Cultural Appropriation', Ethnologies, 33 (1).
Rocha C. 2011, 'A Sôtô Zenshû no Brazil: A Creolização de Práticas Cotidianas' (opens in a new window), Rever, 11 (2): 87-100.
Rocha C. 2010, ‘A Globalização do Espiritismo: o Movimento Religioso de João de Deus na Austrália’, Revista de Antropologia.
Rocha, C. 2009, ‘Global Power Relations at Play in Fieldwork: Researching Spiritism in Brazil’, Fieldwork in Religion, 3(2): 145-160.
Rocha, C. 2009, 'A globalização do espiritismo: fluxos do movimento religioso de João de Deus entre a Austrália e o Brasil', Revista de Antropologia, vol.52 no.2 São Paulo.
Rocha, C. 2009, ‘Seeking Healing Transnationally: Australians and Brazilian Spiritism’, The Anthropology Journal of Australia, 20(2): 229-246.
Rocha, C. 2008, ‘All Roads Come from Zen: Busshinji as a Reference to Buddhism in Brazil’, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies [Special Issue Japanese Religions in Brazil], 35(1): 81-94.
Rocha, C. 2008, ‘The Brazilians in Sydney’, in, The Dictionary of Sydney/ Sydney Journal, 1(2).
Rocha, C. 2007, ‘Quêtes transnationales de médecines «traditionnelles»: la guérison spirituelle brésilienne en Océanie’ [‘Seeking “Traditional” Medicine Transnationally: Brazilian Faith Healing in Oceania’], Socio-Anthropologie, 21: 37-50.
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