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Localizing and Globalizing Processes in Brazilian Catholicism: Comparing Inculturation in Liberationist and Charismatic Catholic Cultures

2008; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/lar.2008.0007

1542-4278

Marjo de Theije, Cecília Loreto Mariz,

Religious Tourism and Spaces

As autoras discutem como o catolicismo da libertacao e a Renovacao Carismatica Catolica no Brasil tem se posicionado de modo variado e distinto diante das forcas culturais globalizantes e homogeneizadoras tanto no catolicismo universal e quanto na sociedade mais ampla. Argumentam que, adotando nocoes distintas de global e local, esses dois movimentos do catolicismo contemporâneo se identificam com tendencias especificas do catolicismo global e se confrontam com processos de sincretismo, aculturacao e inculturacao. Atraves da analise do sentido dado a tradicao, do uso da musica, da pratica de peregrinacao, as autoras mostram como ambos os movimentos conseguem construir culturas religiosas diferentes e formas distintas de inculturacao num contexto repleto de tensoes entre o local e global. The authors discuss the various ways in which liberationist Catholicism and the Catholic charismatic movement in Brazil take positions in the overall globalizing and homogenizing cultural forces in universal Catholicism and wider society. They argue that in their discourses and practices, these two contemporary Catholic movements refer to notions of both local and global and identify with specifi c parts of global Catholicism by confronting processes of syncretism, acculturation, and inculturation. Through an analysis of the meaning of tradition and roots, the use of music, and the practice of pilgrimage, the authors show how both movements manage the construction of distinctive religious cultures and forms of inculturation in the context of tension between the local and the global.