Struggle for the spirit: religious transformation and popular culture in Brazil and Latin America
"Sophisticated study of religion and political culture compares rhetoric of 'the people' in the practices of Catholic Christian Base Communities and Pentecostal or Neo-Pentecostal congregations. Concludes that basista communities build small but powerful dissident elites among the poo...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Cambridge, Mass
Polity Press
1996
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| In: | Year: 1996 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Salvador
/ Basic ecclesial community
/ Catholic church
B Salvador / Pentecostal churches B Brazil / Folk culture / Catholic church / Liberation theology B Brazil / Folk culture / Pentecostal churches |
| Further subjects: | B
Brazil
Church history
B Latin America Church history B Catholic Church Relations Pentecostal churches B Pentecostalism (Latin America) B Pentecostalism (Brazil) B Pentecostalism LatinAmerica B Pentecostalism Brazil |
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| Summary: | "Sophisticated study of religion and political culture compares rhetoric of 'the people' in the practices of Catholic Christian Base Communities and Pentecostal or Neo-Pentecostal congregations. Concludes that basista communities build small but powerful dissident elites among the poor, understandable in traditional terms of the relation between elite and popular culture, while crente congregations lead masses of the poor to break radically with what is rhetorically 'popular' and thus with familiar Brazilian political bargains"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0745617840 |