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Liberation Theology emerges during the upheaval in the Roman Catholic Church caused by 2nd Vatican Council. 1) Movement away from Eurocentrism 2) Concern with 3rd World and Human Rights ¹(135)

RCC: 19th century saw the emergence of Catholic Social Movements; including political parties--re-Christianize society ²(136)

Brazil: Industrialization--> Catholic leaders realized that the church had become disconnected from the poor dislocated masses and was vulnerable to other groups (e.g. Protestants) . Concern emerged for general economic development³ (137)

1950s National And Regional Meetings of Bishops and Catholic Action Groups. Seek to establish a new Christendom ⁴(137)

1950s and 1960s Influx of overseas clergy. Domestic clergy studying overseas. Latin America comes more in line with developments elsewhere in the Catholic Church ⁵(138)

Significance of the Post-Medellin decade, especially in the emergence of the CEBs ⁶(139-140)

CEBs symbolic of the movement " the fact that the reality of the CEBs and their actual influence lived up to their symbolic stature only infrequently says much about the liberation theology movement itself." ⁷(140)

Liberal/Modern aspects of liberation theology: 1) stress on inclusive equality and progress 2) religious and cultural tolerance 3) performance oriented. Yet, ambiguity of liberal orientation in antisystemic (i.e. anti-capitalist) impulses. ⁸(140-146)

CEBs: 1) way of overcoming the problem of the lack of priests 2) enlist poor for liberation projects 3) structural incarnation of many themes within Liberation theology 4) both part of the religious system and a challenge to it⁹ (146-147)

Liberation theology tension due to different logic than that of the wider Catholic Church¹⁰ (152)

In Nicaragua and Brazil Liberation Theology flourished more under authoritarian regimes which were harming the poor that the Catholic hierarchy wished to reach and struggled in times of political liberation when secular avenues of protest emerged ¹¹

1P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 135.

2P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 136.

3P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 137.

4P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 137.

5P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 138.

6P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 139–140.

7P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 140.

8P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 140–146.

9P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 146–147.

10P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 152.

11P Beyer, Religion and Globalization, (London: SAGE, 1994) 153–155.