The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity
Part of Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion
- Author: Manuel A. Vasquez, University of Florida
- Date Published: November 2008
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- isbn: 9780521090865
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This 1997 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. Vásquez'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.
Read more- Interprets changes in religion in Brazil
- Connects the study of religious ideologies with socio-economic changes
- Presents a theory for the study of religion in contemporary society
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- Date Published: November 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521090865
- length: 320 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.41kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I. Background to the Crisis:
1. The popular Church's utopian project: ideological and theological bases
2. The consolidation of the Igreja Popular and its impact on Brazilian society
Part II. The Nature of the Crisis:
3. The internal dimension: a crisis of participation
4. The external dimension: the growth of popular Pentecostalism
Part III. Explaining the Crisis:
5. Intra-Institutional Explanations
6. The crisis in local perspective: a Brazilian base community
7. Brazilian capitalism since the 1980s: redefining the limits of the possible
Part IV. Reinterpreting the Crisis:
8. The popular church and the crisis of modernity
9. Rethinking the Popular Church's project: lessons for this-worldly religious utopias
Conclusion
references.
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