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The Churches and Democracy in Brazil
Brazil is a rapidly emerging country. Brazilian theology, namely the Theology of Liberation, has become well known in the 1970s and 1980s. The politically active Base Ecclesial Communities and the progressive posture of the Roman Catholic Church contrasted with a steadily growing number of evangelicals, mostly aligned with the military regime but attractive precisely to the poor. After democratic transition in the mid-1980s, the context changed considerably. Democracy, growing religious pluralism and mobility, a vibrant civil society, the political ascension of the Worker's Party and growing wealth, albeit within a continuously wide social gap, are some of the elements that show the need of ...
A Companion to Public Theology
Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Public theology has emerged in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as theologians have increasingly entered the public square to engage complex issues. This Companion to Public Theology brings a much-needed resource to this relatively new field. The essays contained here bring a robust and relevant faith perspective to a wide range of issues as well as foundational biblical and theological perspectives which equip theologians to enter into public dialogue. Public theology has never been more needed in public discourse, whether local or global. In conversation across disciplines its contribution to the construction of just polici...
História da Cidadania
Exercer a cidadania plena é ter direitos civis, políticos e sociais. Este livro trata do processo histórico que levou a sociedade ocidental a conquistar esses direitos, assim como dos passos que faltam para integrar os que ainda não são cidadãos plenos. A obra, só com textos inéditos, escritos por alguns dos principais intelectuais brasileiros, começa com a pré-história da cidadania, analisa as bases da cidadania moderna, descreve sua expansão e, em seguida, traz a questão para o Brasil. HISTÓRIA DA CIDADANIA é obra de referência. Ao organizar a discussão sobre um assunto de que tanto se fala e tão pouco se sabe, o livro dá conteúdo a um conceito esvaziado pelo uso indevido, e propicia uma reflexão sólida e consequente. Indispensável para estudantes, professores, jornalistas, políticos, advogados, militantes, ativistas - enfim, para qualquer cidadão.
Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World
This book explores the significance of gender in shaping the Portuguese-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present. Sixteen scholars from disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and cultural studies analyse different configurations and literary representations of women's rights and patriarchal constraints. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The volume pioneers in gendering the Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World and pays particular attention to an inclusive account of indigenous agencies. Contributors are: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Dorothée Boulanger, Rosa Maria dos Santos Capelão, Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe, Gily Coene, Philip J. Havik, Ben James, Anna M. Klobucka, Chia Longman, Amélia Polónia, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Ana Cristina Santos, and João Paulo Silvestre.
Hiding Mengele
Read the international sensation already translated into 10 languages! Unearthing the network that hid the 'Angel of Death,' the infamous Nazi doctor who escaped justice for more than three decades. In 1985, Betina Anton watched Brazilian authorities apprehend her kindergarten teacher for allegedly using false documents to bury in secrecy the remains of Josef Mengele, known worldwide for cruel human experiments and for sending thousands to the Auschwitz gas chambers. Decades later, as an experienced journalist disturbed by the mysteries surrounding the departure of Austrian expat Liselotte Bossert, Anton set out to find her and see if the rumors were true. She could not imagine how deeply in...
Futbolera
Latin American athletes have achieved iconic status in global popular culture, but what do we know about the communities of women in sport? Futbolera is the first monograph on women’s sports in Latin America. Because sports evoke such passion, they are fertile ground for understanding the formation of social classes, national and racial identities, sexuality, and gender roles. Futbolera tells the stories of women athletes and fans as they navigated the pressures and possibilities within organized sports. Futbolera charts the rise of physical education programs for girls, often driven by ideas of eugenics and proper motherhood, that laid the groundwork for women’s sports clubs, which bega...
Faces do fanatismo
Fanático por caipirinha. Fanático por samba. Fanático por viagens. Há fanáticos para tudo. Ou melhor, há fanáticos e fanáticos. Entretanto, parece óbvio que um 'fanático por novela' é algo bem diferente - e bem menos perigoso - que um 'nazista fanático'. Esta obra pretende dar conta das várias faces que o fanatismo adquiriu ao longo do tempo e em contextos distintos. Cruzadas, caça às bruxas, expurgos stalinistas, macartismo, nazismo, terrorismo político, torcidas organizadas, fundamentalismo islâmico e várias outras faces do fanatismo são tratados neste livro.
Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy
In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970s), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980). This political biography of Paulo Freire (1921-97), who played a crucial role in shaping international literacy education, also presents a thoughtful examination of the volatile politics of literacy during the Cold War. A native of Brazil's impoverished northeast, Freire developed adult literacy training techniques that involved consciousness-raising, encouraging peasants and newly urban people...
Mulheres nos espaços de decisão
A tradicional estrutura dicotômica da sociedade e a consequente divisão das atividades refletem-se na esfera da política institucional, majoritariamente masculina. Diante disso, considerando a sub-representatividade de gênero uma questão a ser superada por vários países, em especial o Brasil, onde as mulheres ainda não foram além de 16% da composição do Poder Legislativo, e com o propósito de se responder à seguinte pergunta: "de que modo o Estado brasileiro pode lançar mão de ações afirmativas, as quais pretendem estabelecer uma igualdade material, a fim de que seja alcançada a paridade de gênero na política institucional?", a presente pesquisa se desenvolve a partir da ...
Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education
Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school. Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise the tensions surrounding this journey but also to recognise that legal education is a key site in which the subject engages, and is engaged by, a particular structure—and here the particular structure of the law school. This book explores the resistance to that structure, including: different ways...
