Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in BrazilUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 1991 - 262 páginas At a time when scholars are beginning to think about the political implications of grass roots religion around the world, Kingdoms Come explores the popular religions in Brazil. Rowan Ireland examines the three main religious traditions at the grass roots in Brazil - folk Catholicism, Protestant Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian spiritism - and traces the contrasting definitions of political problems that arise from these spiritual cultures. |
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... experience and the political voice that enunciates religious vision inform one another . In pithy phrases , Severino sums up what experience has taught him ; and he repeats these phrases in both his interpretations of current events and ...
... experience and the political voice that enunciates religious vision inform one another . In pithy phrases , Severino sums up what experience has taught him ; and he repeats these phrases in both his interpretations of current events and ...
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... experience , Severino does not expect justice to come from human institutions ; he distrusts even his own church's ability to resist the laws of greed and envy . And just as no one can represent him before his God , so no one can repre ...
... experience , Severino does not expect justice to come from human institutions ; he distrusts even his own church's ability to resist the laws of greed and envy . And just as no one can represent him before his God , so no one can repre ...
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... experience , religion , and politics among the church crentes of Campo Alegre . That notion helps us avoid the danger of overgeneralizing from a single star like Severino . On the other hand , Severino and the more sectarian mem- bers ...
... experience , religion , and politics among the church crentes of Campo Alegre . That notion helps us avoid the danger of overgeneralizing from a single star like Severino . On the other hand , Severino and the more sectarian mem- bers ...
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Starting Again | 3 |
Religion and Politics in Campo Alegre | 13 |
The Crentes | 47 |
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achieve African Afro-Brazilian Alegre's Assembly Assembly of God authoritarian Brandão Brazilian brotherhood Bruneau bureaucratic caboclo cachaça Campo Alegre Campo Alegrenses Candomblé Carlos Catholic church CEBs church crente citizens clients communitarian communitarian project construction coronelismo crentes cult culto cultura alta dialectic dioceses Dona Paula economic Eduardo elites everyday experience faith fiesta folk Catholicism Fuló Fuló's God's Gonçalo grass roots hierarchy images individual injustice interview Itapira Jesus Joaseiro justice land landowner Latin America leaders living Mainwaring manioc Maria Pretinha medium mélange moral myths national security code neighbors networks orixás Padre Cícero participation pastoral patron patronage Paulo Pedro Faró Pentecostal Petrópolis politicians Politics in Brazil poor populist prayer priest problems Recife relationships Religião rich ritual Rolim rural saint salão salvation sect Severino social society sort spiritist spiritist groups spirits stories structure struggle Sunday symbols Teresa tion toque town traditional Umbanda urban Valdo Xangô