Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries (Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development) - Softcover

Serbin, Kenneth P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0268159920 ISBN 13: 9780268159924

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017

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Páginas:498Géneros:12:HBJK:HistoryoftheAmericas12:HBG:General&worldhistory12:HRCC:ChristianChurches&denominationsSinopsis:Serbinalsodescribestheconservativemodernizationoftheclergy,effectedthroughseminaryeducation,inthelatenineteenthandearlytwentiethcenturies.Emphasizingdiscipline,theseminariesaimedtomoldanewkindofpriest-moral,isolatedfrompoliticsandsocialentanglements,and,aboveall,obedientandcelibate.However,thesocial,cultural,andreligiousupheavalsofthe1960sand1970sledstudentstorejecttheseminary.Seminariansworkedtoformanationalunion,andmanyleftseminariestoestablishgreatercontactwiththepeople.Theseminariansmovementsparkedthepracticeofliberationtheology,italsoreflectedthequestforprofessionalandindividualdevelopment,includingoptionalcelibacy.Seminariesnecessarilydealtinthepsychologyofsexuality,friendship,andotherbasichumantendencies-whathistorianMarcBlochhascalledthesecretneedsoftheheart.SerbinarguesthattheneedsoftheheartwereacauseofthepoliticaltransformationoftheBrazilianChurch,atransformationcatalyzedbytheprofoundidentitycrisisexperiencedbyclergymenandseminariansinthe1960sand1970s.ThestoryofthisgenerationofseminariansandpriestsisintermingledwiththechallengesandfearspresentduringBrazilsrepressivemilitarydictatorship(1964to1985)anditsaftermath._,

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This work stakes out entirely new terrain in the history and historiography of Catholicism and society in Brazil . . . Uncompromising and yet compassionate in its judgments, this second major work on the Church since the author's Secret Dialogues (2000) draws ably and amply on hitherto untapped, century-old archives of key religious congregations charged with clerical training and of Brazil's national hierarchy that oversaw it . . . In uncovering these notable findings and ably setting them within the push and pull of world and national forces, Serbin reconfirms his standing as one of the leading historians of Brazil's past."" - The Americas "". . . Serbin's superb new study offers a comprehensive look at the church from the colonial period to the end of the military government in the 1980s. He takes the long view in order to demonstrate his central argument: that the `progressive' Catholic Church of the twentieth century, with its political activism and social consciousness, did not emerge out of a void but rather developed out of patterns already set in the colonial period that shifted as they played out against the backdrop of a changing Brazil. . . . The book is a welcome addition to the field of Brazilian history and the history of the Catholic Church in Latin America."" - American Historical Review ""Needs of the Heart provides a rich analysis of the historical development of the Catholic Church in Brazil. Much more than in institutional history, this work examines how, over the course of five centuries, priests navigated the divide between Europe and America as they participated in shaping a Brazilian nation as well as a distinctly Brazilian church."" - Hispanic American Historical Review "" . . . By focusing on priests, and connecting their experience to broader socio-political dynamics, Professor Serbin enriches the stories of liberation theology and of the role played by the Catholic church in promoting democracy and social justice . . . A significant contribution to scholarship on Latin America."" - Latin American Studies

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Serbin also describes the conservative modernization of the clergy, effected through seminary education, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Emphasizing discipline, the seminaries aimed to mold a new kind of priest-moral, isolated from politics and social entanglements, and, above all, obedient and celibate. However, the social, cultural, and religious upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s led students to reject the seminary. Seminarians worked to form a national union, and many left seminaries to establish greater contact with the people. The seminarians' movement sparked the practice of liberation theology; it also reflected the quest for professional and individual development, including optional celibacy. Seminaries necessarily dealt in the psychology of sexuality, friendship, and other basic human tendencies-what historian Marc Bloch has called the "secret needs of the heart." Serbin argues that the "needs of the heart" were a cause of the political transformation of the Brazilian Church, a transformation catalyzed by the profound identity crisis experienced by clergymen and seminarians in the 1960s and 1970s. The story of this generation of seminarians and priests is intermingled with the challenges and fears present during Brazil's repressive military dictatorship (1964 to 1985) and its aftermath.

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• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0268159920
• ISBN 13: 9780268159924
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 498