Struggle for the spirit : religious transformation and popular culture in Brazil and Latin America / David Lehmann.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge [England] ; Cambridge, MA : Polity Press, 1996.Description: xiv, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0745617840 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 278/.0825 20
LOC classification:
  • BR 1644 .L44 1996
Review: "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. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index.

"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.

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