Daughters of Rahab
Subtitle: prostitution and the church of liberation in Brazil
By: Margaret Eletta Guider.
Series: Harvard theological studies ;; 40; Harvard theological studies ;; no. 40.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century.; Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 20th century.; Church work with prostitutes -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century.; Church work with prostitutes -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.; Prostitution -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.; Liberation theology.; Brazil -- Church history -- 20th century.; Brazil -- Social conditions.
Description: Employing the biblical narrative of Rahab the Harlot as a framework, Guider recounts the 500-year history and social meaning of prostitution in Brazil. She then tracks the Brazilian church's increasing consciousness of the issues and its determination to address the plight of prostitutes as marginalized women, as victims not sinners.

Yet Guider shows that the church's sponsorship from 1974 to 1990 of eight "national encounters" for marginalized women inexorably revealed the limits of liberation for a church that, in the last analysis, could sooner abandon its class privileges than its doctrinal patrimony, especially its historical legacy concerning women. Primary documents are also included.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.