Women, Religion, and Social Change in Brazil's Popular Church (Title from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies)

Drogus (government, Hamilton College) draws on feminist scholarship, sociological studies of religion and politics, and interviews with members of base communities in Sao Paulo and Sao Miguel in this study of the effects of gender on the ways in which the religious messages of liberation theology are received and acted on. She argues that women transform the class-based message of liberation theology into objectives that relate to charity and service to the community. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.