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. |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-3 de 26
Página 60
... material and moral worlds as he interprets job and status . He recognizes his low status in the material world but rejects any association between that status and any moral failure or inherent inferiority . On the contrary , in the ...
... material and moral worlds as he interprets job and status . He recognizes his low status in the material world but rejects any association between that status and any moral failure or inherent inferiority . On the contrary , in the ...
Página 64
... Material wel- fare has no relation to personal effort ; rights may be counted as offenses ; death or madness is the only escape . Or there is learning , which provides the tools for survival , for some control over destiny , and for the ...
... Material wel- fare has no relation to personal effort ; rights may be counted as offenses ; death or madness is the only escape . Or there is learning , which provides the tools for survival , for some control over destiny , and for the ...
Página 126
... material , visible , every- day world , she helps open up the possibility of exchanges between the spirits and the living . Through the medium the parallel material and spiri- tual worlds are linked . For the living , the benefits of ...
... material , visible , every- day world , she helps open up the possibility of exchanges between the spirits and the living . Through the medium the parallel material and spiri- tual worlds are linked . For the living , the benefits of ...
Índice
Starting Again | 3 |
Religion and Politics in Campo Alegre | 13 |
The Crentes | 47 |
Direitos de autor | |
8 outras secções não apresentadas
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
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