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OverviewLost for Words? explores the rise and decline of progressive Catholic grassroots activism and its drive for social justice and democratic change in four low-income neighborhoods in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Ottmann focuses on the obstacles faced by the poor who took seriously the claim that the people were to transform Brazilian society from the bottom up. He follows their travails through periods of democratization, mass unemployment, and conservative backlash within the Church. Goetz Frank Ottmann moves beyond purely political analysis to record how residents and progressive Catholic activists were drawn into a struggle for a juster society, and how this movement began to unravel even before it reached its peak in the early 1980s. Based on in-depth interviews and participant observation, and drawing on theoretical insights from recent debates on social movements and the sociology of religion, he examines how, by the early 1990s, the liberationist movement had lost its following, lost its allies, failed to achieve its core goals, and seemed to die. Ottmann then shows how in recent years activists have worked to create a new and pragmatic form of religious activism, one that draws on a range of agendas, including Catholic feminism. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Goetz Frank OttmannPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9780822941811ISBN 10: 0822941813 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 31 October 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsAdvances our understanding of popular religions and grassroots politics by focusing on the complex, contested roles religious symbols, images, and metaphors play in struggles around the construction of collective identity and mobilization. - Manuel Vasquez, University of Florida Challenges the current mood of abject pessimism of most analyses of basismo in Brazil. - Stephen R. Niblo, Managing Editor, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies Author InformationGoetz Frank Ottmann is a research fellow at the Centre of Latin American Studies at LaTrobe University in Melbourne. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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