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LA- Brazil Religion
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Sociology
Undergraduate 3
11/11/2009

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Historically Catholic thanks to Portuguese missionaries yet African religions and indigenous religions were incorporated in what is called
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"Popular Catholicism"
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Chronic shortage of priests caused
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catholics to have little official control over beliefs and practices.
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Spiritism
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A variety of religious practices that share belief in supernatural spirits who communicate with humans through temporary possession of devotees.
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Protestentism and especailly Pentecostal groups are the fasted growing religion in...
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Brazil
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Protestantism is popular among urban poor because
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they provide a new family for isolated urban residents and offer power via efforts to provide new resources.
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Liberation Theology in Catholicism
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Goal of providing a preferential option for the poor, rather than the hierarchy traditional landowners and elite. Implemented via Ecclesiastical Base Communities (CEB) Its opposed by most churches.
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Evidence of cultural leveling
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Robin Hood, Avon, Ghost.
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