Rowan Ireland
Biographic Data
| ID | 170366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rowan Ireland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rowan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ireland |
| SIGNATURE | IRELAND R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Brazil's movement of the landless at the cutting edge of conflicted modernity
Brazil's Movement of the Landless (MST) emerges from this collection as one of the great social movements of modernity. In historical chapters we see its evolution from confrontations with landowners and police in land invasions in the South of Brazil in the 1970s to become a multi-faceted movement with a presence throughout Brazil. More than a pressure group for Land Reform, it turned to mount a comprehensive challenge, on linked legal, cultural…
Religion on Dover beach
How does transcendental religion flourish when a secular frame sets conditions of belief? This question is put in a case study of the Catholic Newman Society at the University of Melbourne (1955–65). The Society flourished in a secular University where Charles Taylor’s ‘immanent frame’ was supposedly in place. Explanations are found in the particular spirituality nurtured in the Society and in the contingencies of Australian Catholicism in the mi…
Citizenship and Democratisation in Brazil's Favelas: The End of the Dream
From the later 1970s through to the end of the military government in Brazil (1985), many social scientists saw signs of a new form of citizenship and a deepening of democracy emerging in favela residents' associations. Some maintained the dream, even as it became clear that the restoration of party politics, pervasive clientelism, and effects of economic globalisation tended to corrode and isolate the associations. Over the decades, however, the…
Brazilian civil society in and out of focus: Considerations from a local case-study
From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, grassroots civil society in Brazil was seen as the seed-bed for the restoration of formal democracy (which occurred in 1985) and its subsequent 'deepening'. In a story about democratic restoration and development, then current among activists and social scientists, a range of popular movements, new forms of association, and inter-regional networks at the grassroots, were thought to constitute an ever-expandin…
The dancing spirits of world capitalism: Globalisation, popular culture and citizenship in Salvador, Bahia
This article examines claims about the development of a black civil rights movement in a context of cultural and economic globalisation in the city of Salvador, the capital of the large Northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. The precise issues taken up and the research design have been shaped by the aims and vicissitudes of the wider study of which it is a part—an investigation of the so-called popular movements and citizenship in three Brazilian c…
Popular Religions and the Building of Democracy in Latin America: Saving the Tocquevillian Parallel
Do Latin America's popular religions contribute to the formation of citizens and the development of civil society-the infrastructure of democracy-in ways that parallel the operation of the religious factor in the development of North American democracy as perceived by Tocqueville? Examining evidence prompting both negative and positive responses, this essay argues that Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian Spiritism all contain tendenci…
Manuel castells and the search for the historical subject
The Information Age: economy, society and culture Manuel Castells Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society, 1996 xvii + 556 pp., pb AU$42.95 Volume II: The Power of Identity, 1997 xv+ 461 pp., pb AU$45.00 Volume III: End of Millennium, 1998 xiv + 418 pp., pb AU$45.00 Maiden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell
Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America
The New Protestantism in Latin America: Remembering What We Already Know, Testing What We Have Learned
Pentecostalism, Conversions, and Politics in Brazil
The stereotype of all Latin American Pentecostals as political conservatives or apolitical has long been abandoned by scholars. But how Pentecostalism figures in the lives of Pentecostals so that some are indeed akin to stereotype and others are active, critical citizens involved in radical politics, remains a matter for debate. This paper argues that variation in type of citizenship among Brazilian Pentecostals may be understood not only in term…
Brazil and a Sociology for Hope
Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil
At a time when scholars are beginning to think about the political implications of grass roots religion around the world, Kingdoms Come explores the in Brazil. Rowan Ireland examines the three main religious traditions at the grass roots in Brazil - folk Catholicism, Protestant Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian spiritism - and traces the contrasting definitions of political problems that arise from these spiritual cultures. Ireland argues that d…
Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil
Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil
Kindgoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil
The Prophecy that Failed: The Failure of Religious Prophecy in Campo Algre
Popular Religions and the Building of Democracy in Latin America: Saving the Tocquevillian Parallel
Do Latin America's popular religions contribute to the formation of citizens and the development of civil society-the infrastructure of democracy-in ways that parallel the operation of the religious factor in the development of North American democracy as perceived by Tocqueville? Examining evidence prompting both negative and positive responses, this essay argues that Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian Spiritism all contain tendenci…
Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil
The New Protestantism in Latin America: Remembering What We Already Know, Testing What We Have Learned
Pentecostalism, Conversions, and Politics in Brazil
The stereotype of all Latin American Pentecostals as political conservatives or apolitical has long been abandoned by scholars. But how Pentecostalism figures in the lives of Pentecostals so that some are indeed akin to stereotype and others are active, critical citizens involved in radical politics, remains a matter for debate. This paper argues that variation in type of citizenship among Brazilian Pentecostals may be understood not only in term…
The dancing spirits of world capitalism: Globalisation, popular culture and citizenship in Salvador, Bahia
This article examines claims about the development of a black civil rights movement in a context of cultural and economic globalisation in the city of Salvador, the capital of the large Northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. The precise issues taken up and the research design have been shaped by the aims and vicissitudes of the wider study of which it is a part—an investigation of the so-called popular movements and citizenship in three Brazilian c…
Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America
The Prophecy that Failed: The Failure of Religious Prophecy in Campo Algre
Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil
At a time when scholars are beginning to think about the political implications of grass roots religion around the world, Kingdoms Come explores the in Brazil. Rowan Ireland examines the three main religious traditions at the grass roots in Brazil - folk Catholicism, Protestant Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian spiritism - and traces the contrasting definitions of political problems that arise from these spiritual cultures. Ireland argues that d…
Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil
Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil
Kindgoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil
Brazil and a Sociology for Hope
The New Protestantism in Latin America: Remembering What We Already Know, Testing What We Have Learned
Pentecostalism, Conversions, and Politics in Brazil
The stereotype of all Latin American Pentecostals as political conservatives or apolitical has long been abandoned by scholars. But how Pentecostalism figures in the lives of Pentecostals so that some are indeed akin to stereotype and others are active, critical citizens involved in radical politics, remains a matter for debate. This paper argues that variation in type of citizenship among Brazilian Pentecostals may be understood not only in term…
Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America
Popular Religions and the Building of Democracy in Latin America: Saving the Tocquevillian Parallel
Do Latin America's popular religions contribute to the formation of citizens and the development of civil society-the infrastructure of democracy-in ways that parallel the operation of the religious factor in the development of North American democracy as perceived by Tocqueville? Examining evidence prompting both negative and positive responses, this essay argues that Catholicism, Pentecostalism, and Afro-Brazilian Spiritism all contain tendenci…
Manuel castells and the search for the historical subject
The Information Age: economy, society and culture Manuel Castells Volume I: The Rise of the Network Society, 1996 xvii + 556 pp., pb AU$42.95 Volume II: The Power of Identity, 1997 xv+ 461 pp., pb AU$45.00 Volume III: End of Millennium, 1998 xiv + 418 pp., pb AU$45.00 Maiden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell
The dancing spirits of world capitalism: Globalisation, popular culture and citizenship in Salvador, Bahia
This article examines claims about the development of a black civil rights movement in a context of cultural and economic globalisation in the city of Salvador, the capital of the large Northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. The precise issues taken up and the research design have been shaped by the aims and vicissitudes of the wider study of which it is a part—an investigation of the so-called popular movements and citizenship in three Brazilian c…
Brazilian civil society in and out of focus: Considerations from a local case-study
From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, grassroots civil society in Brazil was seen as the seed-bed for the restoration of formal democracy (which occurred in 1985) and its subsequent 'deepening'. In a story about democratic restoration and development, then current among activists and social scientists, a range of popular movements, new forms of association, and inter-regional networks at the grassroots, were thought to constitute an ever-expandin…
Religion on Dover beach
How does transcendental religion flourish when a secular frame sets conditions of belief? This question is put in a case study of the Catholic Newman Society at the University of Melbourne (1955–65). The Society flourished in a secular University where Charles Taylor’s ‘immanent frame’ was supposedly in place. Explanations are found in the particular spirituality nurtured in the Society and in the contingencies of Australian Catholicism in the mi…
Citizenship and Democratisation in Brazil's Favelas: The End of the Dream
From the later 1970s through to the end of the military government in Brazil (1985), many social scientists saw signs of a new form of citizenship and a deepening of democracy emerging in favela residents' associations. Some maintained the dream, even as it became clear that the restoration of party politics, pervasive clientelism, and effects of economic globalisation tended to corrode and isolate the associations. Over the decades, however, the…
Brazil's movement of the landless at the cutting edge of conflicted modernity
Brazil's Movement of the Landless (MST) emerges from this collection as one of the great social movements of modernity. In historical chapters we see its evolution from confrontations with landowners and police in land invasions in the South of Brazil in the 1970s to become a multi-faceted movement with a presence throughout Brazil. More than a pressure group for Land Reform, it turned to mount a comprehensive challenge, on linked legal, cultural…
Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Religion and Society in Latin America (7 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Law (4 works)