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Religion in the Megacity. Catholic and Protestant Portraits from Latin America
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Berryman, Phillip
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Artículo Disponible
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278.1610 B534
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Comprado
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Phillip Berryman has long been recognized as one of the most insightful interpreteers of contemporary Latin American religion and culture. HIs works The Religious Roots of Rebellion asn Stubborn Hope have provided the best analysis of the role of Berryman surveys a wider and more complez phenomenon; the nw face of religious reality in urban Latin America.
Berryman writes against the background of the rise of "megacities" - the sprawling urban centers that are the home of most of Latin America's ppulation. In that context he contrasts São Paulo and Caracas. The Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo, under Cardinal Arns and progressive Catholics, was a major point of resistance to military dictatorship. It is also a city in which Protestant Pentecostal churches especially have enjoyed explosive growth. Berryman's sure-footed feel for what is happening gives the reader a concrete feel for what is happening in both Protestant and Catholic communities. Caracas, Berryman shows, is a very different kinf o megacity, one that a Protestant missionary called "The Secular City", a place where the relative wealth and consumer lifestyle make it hard for the Gospel to take hold. Catholic and Protestant churches in Caracas face challenges quite different from those of São Paulo. Religion in the Megacity explores those similarities and differences within the respective cities and between them. Berryman breaks new ground in showing the way in which Catholics and Protestants face similar situations, and he does so in a dynamic, readable style that gives the reader insights from knowledgeable men and women on the ground who show that facile stereogypes about what is happening in Latin America today need to be corrected. |
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1-2707-083-1
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Orbis Books
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1996
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210
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United States of America
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New York
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English
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Priscila Barrientos
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Priscila Barrientos
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08/12/2014
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08/12/2014
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