Author

Publication

1996 - Polity Press, Cambridge [England], England

Language

English

Word Count

61,000 words, Guess

Page Count

244 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC278/.0825
  • LCCBR1644 .L44 1996

Description

"Sophisticated study of religion and political culture compares rhetoric of 'the people' in the practices of Catholic Christian Base Communities and Pentecostal or Neo-Pentecostal congregations. Concludes that basista communities build small but powerful dissident elites among the poor, understandable in traditional terms of the relation between elite and popular culture, while crente congregations lead masses of the poor to break radically with what is rhetorically 'popular' and thus with familiar Brazilian political bargains"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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