%0 Journal Article %T Religi車n y Modernizaci車n. La producci車n y la recepci車n de los escritos de Emilio Willems en Brasil sobre religi車n %A Dr. Leonildo Silveira Campos %J Revista Cultura y Religi車n %D 2009 %I Universidad Arturo Prat %X Emilio Willems (1905-1997), a native of Germany, arrived in Brazil in 1931. He had completed a Ph.D. program in the University of Berlin. Five years later, he started serving as a professor and a researcher at the Universidade de S o Paulo, which had been recently founded, and at the Escola Livre de Sociologia e Pol赤tica. In the beginning, his studies were focused on the process of assimilation and acculturation of immigrants in Brazil. But later, Brazil, a catholic, traditional, rural and outdated country that was quickly becoming modern, urban and industrial, was made the focus of his studies. For Willems, the impact of Brazil*s passage from rural to urban led to the arising of a religious pluralism and an interiorized religion. The growth in the number of Protestants, especially Pentecostals, would be connected to the modernization process of the Latin-American society. %K Modernizaci車n %K Religi車n y cambio %K Protestantismo en Am谷rica Latina %U http://www.revistaculturayreligion.cl/articulos/vol_3_n2_2009_1_Leonildo_Silveira.html