Title: Women, religion, and social change in Brazil's popular church
First published: 1997
Description: What happens when liberation theology's attempt to mobilize the Brazilian poor for political and social change meets the realities of church, community, and culture in this predominantly Catholic country? In Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church, Carol Ann Drogus assesses the successes and failures of the movement as she documents how religious personality and gender affect the way the urban poor on the eastern outskirts of Sao Paulo respond to the liberationist message.

All who are interested in Latin American studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, religion, and women's studies will gain much from Drogus's first-hand reports and careful analysis of the role of women, who are the majority participants in the Popular Church.
Subjects: Basic Christian communities, Women in the Catholic Church, Liberation theology, Church history, History, Basisgemeinde, Femmes dans le christianisme, Communautés de base dans l'Église, Rooms-Katholieke Kerk, Vrouwen, Frau, Basisgemeenten, Bevrijdingstheologie
Places: Brazil
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: BX1466.2 .D76 1997