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9780521585088

The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521585088

  • ISBN10:

    0521585082

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-01-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This study explores one of the most dramatic current interactions between religion and politics: the development of progressive Catholicism in Latin America. In particular, it examines economic, social and religious obstacles to progressive theology in Brazil. This 'popular' church built a utopian vision of social emancipation, drawing on Catholic social thought, humanistic Marxism and existentialism. It was a major democratizing force as Brazil emerged from dictatorship in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, however, the popular appeal of progressive Catholicism came under threat. Focusing on a Catholic community near Rio de Janeiro, Manuel A. Vàsquez's incisive study shows how economic and political changes have affected religious practices, and argues that the plight of progressive Catholicism in Brazil forms part of a wider crisis of modernity and of humanist discourses.

Table of Contents

General editors' preface ix(2)
Preface xi
Introduction 1(18)
PART I BACKGROUND TO THE CRISIS 19(38)
1 The Popular church's utopian project: ideological and theological bases
19(27)
2 The consolidation of the igreja popular and its impact on Brazilian society
46(11)
PART II THE NATURE OF THE CRISIS 57(44)
3 The internal dimension: a crisis of participation
57(17)
4 The external dimension: the growth of popular Pentecostalism
74(27)
PART III EXPLAINING THE CRISIS 101(110)
5 Intra-institutional explanations
101(27)
6 The crisis in local perspective: a Brazilian base community
128(43)
7 Brazilian capitalism since the 1980s: redefining the limits of the possible
171(40)
PART IV REINTERPRETING THE CRISIS 211(66)
8 The popular church and the crisis of modernity
211(33)
9 Rethinking the popular church's project: lessons for this-worldly religious utopias
244(33)
Conclusion 277(7)
Bibliography 284(17)
Index 301

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