Looking for God in Brazil - The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil′s Religious Arena (Paper)

1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-520-20503-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

For a generation, the Catholic Church in Brazil has enjoyed international renown as one of the most progressive social forces in Latin America. The Church's creation of Christian Base Communities (CEBs), groups of Catholics who learn to read the Bible as a call for social justice, has been widely hailed. Still, in recent years it has become increasingly clear that the CEBs are lagging far behind the explosive growth of Brazil's two other major national religious movements—Pentacostalism and Afro-Brazilian Umbanda.

On the basis of his extensive fieldwork in Rio di Janeiro, including detailed life histories of women, blacks, youths, and the marginal poor, John Burdick offers the first in-depth explanation of why the radical Catholic Church is losing, and Pentecostalism and Umbanda winning, the battle for souls in urban Brazil.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burdick, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Pfingstkirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Kirchliche Bildungseinrichtungen, Diakonie, Caritas
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE
Introduction: Paradoxes in a Religious Arena

1
Getting Bread at Rodrigo's
2
The Religious Arena
3
"The Church is Open!": Class Fractions in the
Religious Arena
4
"I Struggle at Home Every Day": Women and
Domestic Conflict in the Religious Arena
5
Escape from the Snake's Nest: Unmarried
Youth in the Religious Arena
6
Slaves and Wanderers: Negros in the Religious Arena
7
Catholics, Crentes, and Politics

Conclusion: Looking for Liberation
NOTES
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

John Burdick is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University.