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Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1784-8
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264 pages
November 1996, Polity
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Abbreviations.

Glossary.

Preface.

Introduction.

Part I: Basistas:.

1. Basista Catholicism: Its Context and Character.

2. Movements of Conservation and Renewal in Modern Catholicism.

3. Vatican II, Medellin and Liberation Theology.

4. Concepts and Usages in the Texts and Speech of the 'Basista' Church.

5. Discourse.

6. Conclusion.

Part II: Pentecostals:.

7. The Organizational Dimension of Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism.

8. The Religious Dimension.

9. The Experience of Pentecostals: Exaltation, Loyalty, and Liminality.

Appendix: Pentecostalism's Social Base.

Conclusion.

Bibliography.

Index.

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