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... brings important new evidence and compelling arguments to the task of understanding change in Latin American Catholicism. Working with survey data from the Archdiocese of São Paulo, the author presents a thorough and empirically grounded study of Christian base communities, or CEBs ( comunidades...

... out of his subjects. His central concern is why the much-touted “ecclesial base communities” (CEBs) that many of us saw as the source of hope for a renewed and socially progressive Catholicism in Latin America seem to have lost their momentum, and what the explosive expansion of Pentecostalism...

... of CEBs (or CBCs, Christian base communities) to social and political change in Brazil. He states that CEBs have “helped improve the quality of life for millions” by working toward the realization of improvements in infrastructure, health, and education in São Paulo (p. 57). Hewitt doubts that CEBs...

... she relies. One point that is well established but insufficiently noted in her book is the fact that intra-church conflict was generally much more intense in the archdiocese of Managua than elsewhere in Nicaragua where CEBs were also active. Second, Sabia seems to me to exaggerate the degree to which...

...; la organización campesina en Morazán, en El Salvador, entre 1970 y 1990, en el marco de la expansión de las Comunidades Eclesiales de Base (CEB) y la teología de la liberación; y las luchas de los obreros de la Fábrica Uruguaya de Neumáticos S. A. (FUNSA) entre 1958 y 1973. Contiene además un...

... in the secular sphere. Siding with the findings of the Mainwaring paper, she stressed that serious students of the CEBs have not found them to be genuine instruments of popular expression. In fact, contemporary “grass-roots” movements can be seen as traditional clientelism in a new guise. Crahan suggested...

... economy weakened the identification of community with the surrounding landscape and opened new, wider possibilities for an “imagined” community. Civil war after 1980 shattered the CEBs and the cash economy as while offering class and nation as alternative bases for identity and community. By the mid-1980s...

..., especially in the period of abertura . She is particularly illuminating on the grassroots organizations, including the comunidades eclesiais de base (CEBs), on the development of the new union movement and the strikes of 1978 to 1980, as well as the increasingly important political role of such other...

... the introduction of CEBs ( comunidades eclesiais de base , or Christian base communities), Serbin argues, Brazilian clergy developed a model of living among the people. When faced with persecution from the Brazilian state and discipline from Rome, many chose to abandon the priesthood. The question of celibacy...