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Article: Legacies of Liberation: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil.(Book Review)
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- Church History
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- December 1, 2005
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Legacies of Liberation: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil. By John Burdick. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2004. xii + 163 pp. $89.95 cloth.
In this highly readable short monograph, John Burdick challenges the reports of the demise of liberation theology in Brazil with rich evidence of the persistence of the religious teachings, structures, practices, and perspectives first developed by the progressive Catholic Church from the 1950s through the 1980s. Indeed, his broad-based resources leave the reader little doubt that the seeds sown by the liberationists, at one time carefully nurtured by the Catholic Church, sent deep roots into the spiritual and political ...