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The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity

  • Paperback
  • 320 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm

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For scholars interested in religion and politics today

Explores challenges facing progressive Catholicism in Brazil

You will understand the impact of faith on social change

This insightful study delves into the crisis of progressive Catholicism in Brazil.
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. Vasquez'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.
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  • Author

    Manuel A. Vasquez

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    November 2008

  • Weight

    409g

  • Page Count

    320

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521090865

  • ISBN-10

    0521090865

  • Eden Code

    1237890

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