The Brazilian popular church and the crisis of modernity / Manuel A. Vásquez.

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Vásquez, Manuel A

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TextSeries: Cambridge studies in ideology and religion ; 11.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 302 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0511005059
9780511005053

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brazilian popular church and the crisis of modernity.DDC classification:

282/.81/09045 21

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BX1467.2 .V37 1998eb

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Contents:

Part I. Background to the crisis -- The popular Church's Utopian project : ideological and theological bases -- The consolidation of the Igreja Popular and its impact on Brazilian society -- Part II. The nature of the crisis -- The internal dimension : a crisis of participation -- The external dimension: the growth of popular Pentecostalism -- Part III. Explaining the crisis -- Intra-Institutional Explanations -- The crisis in local perspective : a Brazilian base community -- Brazilian capitalism since the 1980s : redefining the limits of the possible -- Part IV. Reinterpreting the crisis -- The popular church and the crisis of modernity -- Rethinking the Popular Church's project : lessons for this-worldly religious utopias -- Conclusion.

Summary: 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 democratising force as Brazil emerged from dictatorship in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, however, the popular appeal of progressive Catholicism came under threat. Focussing on a Catholic community near Rio de Janeiro, Manuel A. Vs̀quez'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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-300) and index.

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 democratising force as Brazil emerged from dictatorship in the late 1970s. In the 1980s, however, the popular appeal of progressive Catholicism came under threat. Focussing on a Catholic community near Rio de Janeiro, Manuel A. Vs̀quez'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.