The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity

by Manuel A. Vasquez

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521090865
• ISBN13: 9780521090865
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"