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David Lehmann - Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America - 9780745617848 - V9780745617848
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Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America

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Description for Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America Hardback. For 500 years Catholicism has been the dominant religious force throughout Latin America. Num Pages: 260 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLC; 1KLS; HRCC7; HRCC96; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 553.
For 500 years Catholicism has been the dominant religious force throughout Latin America. Its hegemony was based on a complex relationship with popular culture; the colorful and the macabre, the syncretic and the purist, the indigenous and the cosmopolitan, the popular and the erudite have combined to form a uniquely creative and reflexive cultural complex.

But in the second half of the twentieth century, just as the Church sought to reform itself by proclaiming its "preferential option for the poor", some of the most charismatic forms of Protestantism, carried along by an open and aggressive hostility to the traditions of ... Read more

Drawing on detailed research in Brazil and extensive knowledge of Latin America as a whole, Lehmann explores the predicament of the Catholic Church in the face of the apparently irresistible rise of Pentecostalism, examines the structure and practices of the religious organizations and assesses the broader political implications of these developments. This well informed and carefully researched study sheds new light on one of the most remarkable cultural transformations of our time.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745617848
SKU
V9780745617848
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About David Lehmann
David Lehmann is Director of the Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge.

Reviews for Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America
"Struggle for the Spirit comes to grips with two antagonistic contemporary modes of thought and action, Christian fundamentalism and basismo, through the broad sweep of history, as contemporary worldwide movements, and within the temples and chapels of the city of Salvador, Brazil. This very well written and good-humoured book should be read not only by those interested in religion, since ... Read more

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