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Chesnut, R. Andrew
Non-Resident Distinguished Senior Fellow Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut is the Bishop Walter Sullivan Endowed Chair of Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a leading international authority on Christianity in Latin America, especially in Brazil and Mexico. He is the author of two books and many scholarly articles. His first book “Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty” (Rutgers University Press, 1997), examines the meteoric growth of Pentecostalism among the popular classes of Brazil. The book focuses on a single religion, whereas his second book, “Competitive Spirits: Latin America’s New Religious Economy” (Oxford 2003), considers the three religious groups that have prospered the most in the region’s new pluralist landscape; Charismatic Catholicism, Protestant Pentecostalism and African diasporan faiths. “Competitive Spirits” was recently published in paperback. The Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico’s patron saint, is the subject of his current book project. Before joining Virginia Commonwealth University, he taught at the University of Houston for 11 years.
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