Christianity of liberation, prosperity theology, and perspectives of class struggle in Brazil

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ID4284247
AuthorsAnderson Dos Anjos Pereira Pena (0000-0002-7211-2728, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Estado de Goiás, Brasil), Clarice Zientarski (0000-0002-8453-5429, Universidade Federal do Ceará)
Year2022
Volume27
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Brasileira de Educação (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1413-2478 • E-ISSN: 1809-449X
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s1413-24782022270023
OpenAlexW4285107529
LanguageEN
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This text synthesizes the onset, development, and collapse of Christianity of Liberation in its relationship with the working class. When the Vatican qualified the liberation theology as heresy in 1984, the space occupied by the Christian Base Communities (Comunidades Eclesiais de Base) became dominated by a new segment, attracting more underprivileged people to their religious business ventures. For this reason, this paper will analyze the educational role played by the Christian Base Communities in setting up and organizing the working masses and as a consequence of their reflux, which is concomitant with the processes of pentecostalization in Brazilian Christianity. Since then, the masses have been faced with a crossroads posed by the growth of (neo) pentecostal religions in a consortium with the prosperity theology as popular and union movements are refluxing

Christianity · Heresy · Liberation theology · Political science · Prosperity · Sociology · Theology · Working class · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society in Latin America · Religious studies · Social and Economic Solidarity

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