Opting for the Poor
A Social-Historical Analysis of the Changing Brazilian Catholic Church
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4264191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Cousineau (0000-0001-8579-883X, University of Massachusetts Boston, corresponding author), Madeleine Adriance |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0210 • E-ISSN: 2325-7873 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3711056 |
| OpenAlex | W2395002494 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
The preferential option for the poor, which is becoming increasingly evident in the Catholic Church in Latin America, has led to the encouragement of grassroots movements for social change, as well as to conflict between the Church and military governments. Although the institutionalization of this new ecclesial position occurred at the Second General Conference of the Latin American Bishops in Medellin, Colombia, in 1968, signs of its development had already appeared several years earlier in Brazil The present study utilizes a Gramscian approach to investigate the political-economic and religious-institutional conditions in that country that provided the context for the emergence of the option for the poor. Documentation is drawn both from published sources and from this author's field research, which included participant observation in basic ecclesial communities and sixty-four interviews with lay people, sisters, priests, and bishops
Bishops · Context (archaeology) · Documentation · Economic growth · Grassroots · Institutionalisation · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Political theory and Gramsci · Religion and Society in Latin America · Social and Political Issues
Politics in Brazil, 1930 - 1964
Catholicism, Social Control, and Modernization in Latin America
Catholic Radicals in Brazil
New Marxist Approaches to the Relative Autonomy of Religion
The Church and the Latin American Revolution
Papal Power
The ' Romanization ' of Catholicism and Agrarian Capitalism in Brazil
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |