| The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity Contributor(s): Vasquez, Manuel A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521090865 ISBN-13: 9780521090865 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: Incisive study of progressive Catholicism and the threats it faces in Latin America. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | Christianity - History - Religion | Christian Church - History |
| Dewey: 282.810 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Catholic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 V squez' 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. |