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No Land of Milk and Honey: Women CEB Activists in Posttransition Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Carol Ann Drogus
Carol Ann Drogus*
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Hamilton College
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Abstract

Brazil’s comunidades eclesiais de base (CEBs) forged a generation of women leaders from poor communities who helped rebuild civil society and spurred the democratic transition. Fifteen years later, the CEBs and their women leaders have largely disappeared from politics. This study examines the reasons for their eclipse and the chances for their reemergence. New alliances with other Catholic progressives, Pentecostals, and feminist groups may enable these women to resume their activist role and may again help revitalize Brazilian civil society.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 41 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Religion in America: Churches, Globalization, and Democratization , Winter 1999 , pp. 35 - 51
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Copyright © University of Miami 1999

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