Liberationist Passions in Latin America
Subtitle: Legacies of a Religious Revolution
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780754615514
Subjects: Religion; Religion & Beliefs; Christian Theology - Liberation; Christianity - Theology - Liberation Theology
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.