Abumanssur: Catholicism

Plurality of Catholicism in Brazil (1) hierarchichal institutional catholicism (2) lay, popular catholicism, focused on celebration of the saints; flourished in the colonial period when priests were rare (3) charismatic catholicism, fast growing, strong lay presence. ¹

1ES Abumanssur, 'Crisis as Opportunity: Church Structure in Times of Global Transformations Religion within a context of globalisation: the case of Brazil', Revista de Estudos da Religião 3 (2002), 76–85, 78.