TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lehmann,David
TI  - Struggle for the spirit: religious transformation and popular culture in Brazil and Latin America 
SN  - 0745617840 (alk. paper)
AV  - BR 1644 .L44 1996
U1  - 278/.0825 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge [England], Cambridge, MA
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Relations
KW  - Pentecostal churches
KW  - Pentecostalism
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index
N2  - "Sophisticated study of religion and political culture compares rhetoric of 'the people' in the practices of Catholic Christian Base Communities and Pentecostal or Neo-Pentecostal congregations. Concludes that basista communities build small but powerful dissident elites among the poor, understandable in traditional terms of the relation between elite and popular culture, while crente congregations lead masses of the poor to break radically with what is rhetorically 'popular' and thus with familiar Brazilian political bargains"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58
ER  -