Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. is Associate Professor of World Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he earned his PhD in Religion and Society. He has degrees from the Seminário Teológico do Norte do Brasil and McAfee School of Theology/Mercer University. Prior to coming to Princeton, he taught in Brazil and served as director of freedom and justice at the Baptist World Alliance (BWA). At Princeton, he is one of the conveners of the World Christianity Conference, which will hold its fourth edition in 2023. He currently chairs the Committee on Christian Unity and Interfaith Relations of the American Baptist Churches USA and is the general editor of the World Christianity and Public Religion series, published by Fortress Press. He has authored and co-edited a number of publications, including Evangélicos e Pobreza no Brasil: Encontros e Respostas Éticas (2019), World Christianity, Urbanization, and Identity (2021), Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity (2019), Decolonial Christianities: Latin American and Latinx Perspectives (2019), and the forthcoming Protesting Poverty: Protestants, Social Ethics and the Poor in Brazil (2023).
