0137-2432 Jumping into faith - the Phenomenon of Brazilian Pentecostal Conversions Siuda-Ambroziak Renata author Uniwersytet Warszawski 039bjqg32 Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo 00sfmx060 Correspondence to: Renata Siuda-Ambroziak r.siuda@uw.edu.pl 28 09 2018 Tom 51, Numer 1 2018 11 32 Copyright © 2018 2018 <div id="cke_pastebin">In the article, the author focuses on the phenomenon of Pentecostal expansion among contemporary Brazilians, first discussing some sociocultural contexts of massive conversions by means of applying chosen theories to the Brazilian religious context, and then looking at the decisions behind religious transitions through their socially and culturally situated perspective, which prepares a relevant background for understanding the reasons and meanings of individual decisions dealt with in the second part of the article. Based on conversion “flashes” from individual testimonies given by converts, the author makes an attempt to show the common and most enticing features of Pentecostal conversion in a search for an explanation for its “snowball effect” in Brazil. </div> 1 Alvarsson J.-A., Siuda-Ambroziak R., Religiones e iglesias en la formación de una nueva América Latina a finales del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI, [in:] América Latina del siglo XXI. Nuevas semblanzas, nuevas estructuras, nuevas identidades, A. Dembicz, A. Elbanowski (eds.), Warszawa 2013, pp. 353–410. 2 Amit V., Introduction: Constructing The Field, [in:] Constructing the Field. Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World, V. Amit (ed.), London–New York 2000. 3 Anderson A.H., Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature of Early Pentecostalism, London 2007. 4 Bateson G., A Systems Approach, “International Journal of Psychiatry” 1971, no. 9, pp. 242–244. 5 Beckford J., Teoria społeczna a religia, transl. M. Kunz, T. 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