Choice Outstanding Academic Books 1996 Using information gathered from more than one hundred interviews with farmers, activists, and church people in northern Brazil, the author shows how the present conflicts over land in the Amazon, as well as the destruction of the rainforest, are rooted in specific policies of the Military Government that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985, and how the effects of those policies continue to be felt. Presented here are six present-day case studies that not only give evidence of the direct links between peasant farmers' participation in grassroots church groups and their activism for land reform, but also, through rich local detail and quotes from the interviews, give a human face to sociological data.
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Madeleine Cousineau Adriance is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mount Ida College.
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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, and Back Matter
- Needs of the Heart: A Social And Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy And Seminaries (Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies) by Ken Serbin in Back Matter
- Religion in a Changing World: Comparative Studies in Sociology (Religion in the Age of Transformation) by Madeleine Cousineau on page 192
- The Catholic Church and the Nation-State: Comparative Perspectives (Religion and Politics series) by Paul Christopher Manuel on page 170
- Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action by Bronislaw Misztal in Back Matter
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