Promised land : base Christian communities and the struggle for the Amazon /

Using information gathered from more than one hundred interviews with farmers, activists, and church people in northern Brazil, the author shows how the present conflicts over land in the Amazon, as well as the destruction of the rainforest, are rooted in specific policies of the Military Government...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adriance, Madeleine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1995.
Colección:SUNY series in religion, culture, and society.
Temas:
Land reform > Brazil, North.
Church and social problems > Brazil, North.
Basic Christian communities > Brazil, North.
Land reform > Amazon River Region.
Church and social problems > Amazon River Region.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
Basic Christian communities.
Church and social problems.
Land reform.
Rural conditions.
Brazil, North > Rural conditions.
Amazon River Region > Rural conditions.
Amazon River Region.
North Brazil.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: The context of change
  • The military regime and Agrarian policy
  • Part 2: Six cases
  • Arame: the town names for barbed wire
  • São Luiś: the great aluminum disaster
  • Santa Rita: where the Buffalo roamed
  • Northern Tocantins: blood in the parrot's beak
  • Bio Maria: tragedy and hope in the Land of Canaan
  • Bye-bye Brazil: along the Transamozonic highway reflections on the case studies
  • Part 3: Analysis
  • Help and hindrance: the institutional church
  • Base communities: link between religion and Agrarian activism
  • CEBs, rural unions, and the struggle for land
  • Daughters of Judith: women in the land struggle
  • Part 4: Conclusion
  • Beyond the Amazon: religion and social change
  • Appendix: Gaining access and gathering data.

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