Localizing and Globalizing Processes in Brazilian Catholicism: Comparing Inculturation in Liberationist and Charismatic Catholic Cultures
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: As autoras discutem como o catolicismo da libertação e a Renovação Carismática Católica no Brasil têm se posicionado de modo variado e distinto diante das forças culturais globalizantes e homogeneizadoras tanto no catolicismo universal e quanto na sociedade mais ampla. Argumentam que, adotando noções distintas de global e local, esses dois movimentos do catolicismo contemporâneo se identificam com tendências específicas do catolicismo global e se confrontam com processos de sincretismo, aculturação e inculturação. Através da análise do sentido dado à tradição, do uso da música, da prática de peregrinação, as autoras mostram como ambos os movimentos conseguem construir culturas religiosas diferentes e formas distintas de inculturação num contexto repleto de tensões entre o local e global. The authors discuss the various ways in which liberationist Catholicism and the Catholic charismatic movement in Brazil take positions in the overall globalizing and homogenizing cultural forces in universal Catholicism and wider society. They argue that in their discourses and practices, these two contemporary Catholic movements refer to notions of both local and global and identify with specifi c parts of global Catholicism by confronting processes of syncretism, acculturation, and inculturation. Through an analysis of the meaning of tradition and roots, the use of music, and the practice of pilgrimage, the authors show how both movements manage the construction of distinctive religious cultures and forms of inculturation in the context of tension between the local and the global.
Source: Latin American Research Review
Authors: Marjo de. Theije, Cecília Loreto. Mariz
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2116146567