Religion, Sociology, Domination, and Intolerance: a View from Brazil
Brazilian sociologists of religion have above all been busy with a project for Brazil. On the wake of Comte's and Marx's interpretations, they have wished to work toward the demise of religion as a consequence of God's death. The issue gains in complexity due to changes in Catholici...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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International journal of Latin American religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 222-239 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Brazil
/ Denomination (Religion)
/ Secularization
/ God-is-dead theology
/ Resistance
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion KBR Latin America |
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Growth of brazilian pentecostalism
B Ungodding B Decline of brazilian catholicism B Afro-brazilians B Social scientists B Thought societiees |
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| Summary: | Brazilian sociologists of religion have above all been busy with a project for Brazil. On the wake of Comte's and Marx's interpretations, they have wished to work toward the demise of religion as a consequence of God's death. The issue gains in complexity due to changes in Catholicism, the country's traditionally dominant religion, which has undergone a process of cognitive capitulation and disenchantment, triggered by the Second Vatican Council. Brazil has also experienced dramatic processes of industrialization, urbanization, cultural change, and often anomie. Many of the traditionally Catholic people have joined Protestant churches, above all Pentecostal, characterized by intense enthusiasm and indefatigable proselytism. Sociologists wish to control what they tend to see as the bankrupt assets of religion, until their eventual withering away. They have been relatively successful vis-à-vis Catholicism and so-called historical Protestant churches. Yet, the secularizing endeavor of sociologists and other intellectuals has been strongly resisted by Pentecostals, who spurn disenchantment and hence unreligionization and secularization. On an apparently different vein, sociologists and anthropologists, Brazilian and foreign, have also been resisted by the adepts of the Afro-Brazilian religions, who, despite the sophisticated theories with which social scientists have tried to persuade them of the self-sufficiency of their own religion, have tenaciously clung to their syncretic links with traditional Catholicism. |
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| ISSN: | 2509-9965 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of Latin American religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s41603-017-0022-5 |