Dom Helder Camara, les puissants et les pauvres
Subtitle: pour une histoire de l'Eglise des pauvres dans le Nordeste brésilien, 1955-1985
By: Richard Marin.
Series: Eglises/sociétés,
Publisher: Editions de l'atelier/Editions ouvrières
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Câmara, Hélder, 1909-; Catholic Church -- Brazil -- Bishops -- Biography.; Church and social problems -- Brazil.; Church and the poor -- Brazil.
Description: "A corrective to hagiographies, argues that Dom Helder Câmara's symbolic importance was inflated by critics' demonizing rhetoric and by statements he issued abroad while silenced in Brazil, 1970-77. First, the antiquated structure of the Archdiocese of Recife-Olinda (1964-69), and then the crisis of the priesthood (1970-85), limited the impact of his reforms. Recife was not much different from other dioceses in level of state repression or depth of reform"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-356) and index.