Looking for God in Brazil : the progressive Catholic Church in urban Brazil's religious arena / John Burdick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burdick, John, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Brazil--History--20th century.

Catholic Church.

Liberation theology.

Basic Christian communities--Brazil.

Basic Christian communities.

Christian sociology--Catholic Church.

Christian sociology.

Urban anthropology--Brazil.

Urban anthropology.

Brazil--Church history.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 280 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-274) and index.

ISBN:

0-585-13524-X

0-520-91774-X

OCLC:

1414457121