Author: John Burdick
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520917743
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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For a generation, the Catholic Church in Brazil has enjoyed international renown as one of the most progressive social forces in Latin America. The Church's creation of Christian Base Communities (CEBs), groups of Catholics who learn to read the Bible as a call for social justice, has been widely hailed. Still, in recent years it has become increasingly clear that the CEBs are lagging far behind the explosive growth of Brazil's two other major national religious movements—Pentacostalism and Afro-Brazilian Umbanda. On the basis of his extensive fieldwork in Rio di Janeiro, including detailed life histories of women, blacks, youths, and the marginal poor, John Burdick offers the first in-depth explanation of why the radical Catholic Church is losing, and Pentecostalism and Umbanda winning, the battle for souls in urban Brazil.
Author: Hugh C. Tucker
Publisher:
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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Author: Erika Helgen
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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The story of how Brazilian Catholics and Protestants confronted one of the greatest shocks to the Latin American religious system in its 500-year history This innovative study explores the transition in Brazil from a hegemonically Catholic society to a religiously pluralistic society. With sensitivity, Erika Helgen shows that the rise of religious pluralism was fraught with conflict and violence, as Catholic bishops, priests, and friars organized intense campaigns against Protestantism. These episodes of religious violence were not isolated outbursts of reactionary rage, but rather formed part of a longer process through which religious groups articulated their vision for Brazil’s national future.
Author: Frederick Charles Glass
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Author: American Bible Society
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781585162277
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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This bible is Today's Portuguese version, Brazillian edition
Author: American Bible Society
Publisher:
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Solomon L. Ginsburg
Publisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Author: Elizabeth F. S. Roberts
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520952251
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Assisted reproduction, with its test tubes, injections, and gamete donors, raises concerns about the nature of life and kinship. Yet these concerns do not take the same shape around the world. In this innovative ethnography of in vitro fertilization in Ecuador, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts explores how reproduction by way of biotechnological assistance is not only accepted but embraced despite widespread poverty and condemnation from the Catholic Church. Roberts’ intimate portrait of IVF practitioners and their patients reveals how technological intervention is folded into an Andean understanding of reproduction as always assisted, whether through kin or God. She argues that the Ecuadorian incarnation of reproductive technology is less about a national desire for modernity than it is a product of colonial racial history, Catholic practice, and kinship configurations. God’s Laboratory offers a grounded introduction to critical debates in medical anthropology and science studies, as well as a nuanced ethnography of the interplay between science, religion, race and history in the formation of Andean families.
Author: Sarah J. Hautzinger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520252772
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. This work explores this phenomenon as a window onto the shifting relationship between violence and gendered power struggles in the city of Salvador da Bahia.
Author: Hugh C. Tucker
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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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