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Article: Base communities and rural mobilization in northern Brazil. (Religion and Democracy in Latin America)
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- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Land is a key issue in Brazil. Conflict over land resulted in the murder of Chico Mendes and in massacres of indigenous peoples. The driving of thousands of peasant farmers from the countryside in the name of modernization has produced an artificial urbanization characterized by soaring rates of unemployment, hunger, homelessness, and crime. There is a growing movement to defend the rights of peasants against the land claims of large ranchers and national and foreign companies. A strong force within this movement has come from base communities (comunidades eclesiais de base, or CEBs) -- grassroots Catholic groups that study the Bible and discuss its application to people's ...
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Article: Base communities.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
National Catholic Reporter;
September 14, 2007 ;
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... ... ones who may be the principal celebrants of the Eucharist, are a group set apart in what is really a closed boys' club, base communities cannot celebrate the Eucharist in their small groups. The change from small home churches of real communities in the original ...
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