Legacies of Liberation
Subtitle: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil at the Start of a New Millennium
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780754615507
Subjects: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Religion; Religion - Catholicism; Bibles; Brazil; Christianity - Catholic; Christianity - Catholicism; Biblical Studies - General; Religion - Roman Catholic; Bible - General
First sentence: If, in the early years of the twentieth century, an incautious soothsayer had hazarded the prediction that Brazil's Catholic Church, for more than four centuries a bastion of authoritarianism, would soon become one of the hemisphere's most vigorous defenders of progressive ideals, he would no doubt have been dismissed as a lunatic.