Manuel A. Vasquez

The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Incisive study of progressive Catholicism and the threats it faces in Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780521090865
• ISBN-10: 0521090865
• Artikelnr.: 25427676

Inhaltsangabe

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.