The Brazilian popular church and the crisis of modernity /
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| Author / Creator: | Vásquez, Manuel A. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998. |
| Description: | xv, 302 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in ideology and religion |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2921892 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Background to the crisis
- 1. The popular Church's Utopian project: ideological and theological bases
- 2. The consolidation of the Igreja Popular and its impact on Brazilian society
- Part II. The nature of the crisis
- 3. The internal dimension: a crisis of participation
- 4. The external dimension: the growth of popular Pentecostalism
- Part III. Explaining the crisis
- 5. Intra-Institutional Explanations
- 6. The crisis in local perspective: a Brazilian base community
- 7. Brazilian capitalism since the 1980s: redefining the limits of the possible
- Part IV. Reinterpreting the crisis
- 8. The popular church and the crisis of modernity
- 9. Rethinking the Popular Church's project: lessons for this-worldly religious utopias
- Conclusion
- references
