Journey to Brazil

The book comments on a journey to Amazonia and the Brazilian East Coast, which the author undertakes with a former classmate, a missionary priest who has lived and worked in Brazil for 50 years. The travelogue provides glimpses of a rapidly changing societal and religious scene, tries to make sense of the astonishing success of Pentecostal denominations, considers the legacy of a decades-old division between progressives and traditionalists in the Catholic hierarchy, and envisions, for the future, a laity-centered Catholicism that portends changes in the Universal Church including the US.

Product details

• Authors: Jakob Schmidt
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2014
• EAN: 9781312257016
• ISBN: 978-1-312-25701-6
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 5 mm
• Weight: 142 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works