This study explores one of the most dramatic contemporary interactions between religion and politics: the development of progressive Catholicism in Latin America. From the late 1960s this religious movement sought to transform the church and society. In the 1980s, however, the popular appeal of liberation theology was threatened. Focusing on a Brazilian community, Manuel Vásquez' incisive book examines the fate of progressive Catholicism amid changes in the Vatican and in the economy, and a wider crisis of modernity and humanistic thought.
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"This is a significant contribution to the study of the Brazilian Roman Catholic Church which not only provides a rich analysis, but also an illustrative example of an approach which seeks to relate the case study method...to wider theoretical issues.... This work offers a concise definition of the modernist utopian project, a clear and brisk survey of the `popular church's' ideological...and theological bases on the socialist version of the Western modernist utopia, all skillfully set in the context of the institutional Church and the related internal and external ecclesiastical pressures on the national and international levels. This careful and provocative work is a worthy addition to the Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion. It fills a lacuna in scholarly work on the Brazilian church...." Iain S. Maclean, H-Net Reviews
"What Vásquez has to say offers a good guide to a rethinking of liberation theology." Books & Culture
"Vásquez's excellent work...pays close attention to the larger context: theological and ideological, political and economic. he thoughtfully and powerfully engages the vast literature of the basse community movement. His nuanced study attends to the various internal and external factors that have contributed to the decline of the popular church. He succeeds in demonstrating the overwhelming capacity of late capitalism, especially as it is manifested in Brazil, to obstruct and challenge utopian, emancipatory projects." Koinonia
"Throughout this work the author clearly articulates his thoretical and methodological presuppositions...this is a well-written, valuable study." Dana Sawchuk, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
"This is a useful and important project, and the author's consistent attention to it helps him to identify the ways in which local social action can satisfy needs, and resituate individuals in the context in which they live." Church History
"What Vásquez has to say offers a good guide to a rethinking of liberation theology." Books & Culture
"Vásquez's excellent work...pays close attention to the larger context: theological and ideological, political and economic. he thoughtfully and powerfully engages the vast literature of the basse community movement. His nuanced study attends to the various internal and external factors that have contributed to the decline of the popular church. He succeeds in demonstrating the overwhelming capacity of late capitalism, especially as it is manifested in Brazil, to obstruct and challenge utopian, emancipatory projects." Koinonia
"Throughout this work the author clearly articulates his thoretical and methodological presuppositions...this is a well-written, valuable study." Dana Sawchuk, Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
"This is a useful and important project, and the author's consistent attention to it helps him to identify the ways in which local social action can satisfy needs, and resituate individuals in the context in which they live." Church History
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This study explores one of the most dramatic contemporary interactions between religion and politics: the development of progressive Catholicism in Latin America. From the late 1960s this religious movement sought to transform the church and society. In the 1980s, however, the popular appeal of liberation theology was threatened. Focussing on a Brazilian community, Manuel Vásquez's incisive book examines the fate of progressive Catholicism amidst changes in the Vatican and in the economy, and a wider crisis of modernity and humanistic thought.
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In this chapter I map out the sources and nature of the popular church's theology, pastoral method, and social epistemology (i.e., its conceptions of human agency, history, and social change). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
igreja dos pobres, precarious life conditions, worsening life conditions, evangelization groups, popular church, pastoral agents, capitalist configuration, community nucleus, liberationist message, evangelization teams, pastoral methodology, pastoral changes, pastoral initiatives, comunidades eclesiais, progressive bishops, base ecclesial communities, grupos pequenos, patrimonial politics, clientelist politics, religious utopias, modern impulse, pastoral approach, religious field, base communities, popular religiosity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pedra Bonita, Latin America, Sao Paulo, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, New York, Orbis Books, Ness York, Baixada Fluminense, Father Jaime, Father Patricio, Brazilian Catholicism, Della Cava, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, Berlin Wall, Clodovis Boff, John Paul, Leonardo Boff, Paulo Freire, Sao Jorge, Theology of Liberation, University of California Press, David Martin, Did Liberation Theology Collapse New!
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In this chapter I map out the sources and nature of the popular church's theology, pastoral method, and social epistemology (i.e., its conceptions of human agency, history, and social change). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
igreja dos pobres, precarious life conditions, worsening life conditions, evangelization groups, popular church, pastoral agents, capitalist configuration, community nucleus, liberationist message, evangelization teams, pastoral methodology, pastoral changes, pastoral initiatives, comunidades eclesiais, progressive bishops, base ecclesial communities, grupos pequenos, patrimonial politics, clientelist politics, religious utopias, modern impulse, pastoral approach, religious field, base communities, popular religiosity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pedra Bonita, Latin America, Sao Paulo, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, New York, Orbis Books, Ness York, Baixada Fluminense, Father Jaime, Father Patricio, Brazilian Catholicism, Della Cava, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, Berlin Wall, Clodovis Boff, John Paul, Leonardo Boff, Paulo Freire, Sao Jorge, Theology of Liberation, University of California Press, David Martin, Did Liberation Theology Collapse New!
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- Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America by Virginia Garrard-Burnett on 5 pages
- The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama on page 62, page 63, and Back Matter
- Capitalism and Social Democracy (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) by Adam Przeworski in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The End of Organized Capitalism by Scott Lash on page 172, and Back Matter
- Frontiers of Social Theory by George Ritzer in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Legacies of Liberation: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil at the Start of a New Millennium by John Burdick in Front Matter, page 98, and Back Matter
- The Ethics of Community (New Dimensions to Religious Ethics) by Frank Kirkpatrick on page 119, and Back Matter
- Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish (Religion and Spirituality in the Modern World) by David Martin in Back Matter
- The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins in Back Matter
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