Cavalcanti: Political

prior to 1964 Presbyterian church [IPB] political neutrality as a survival strategy¹ (99)

support for coup in IPB paralleled by greater centralization and authoritarianism within denomination² (100)

Theological intransigence of IPB-->theological conservativism influenced by rural/small town piety from US and religious intolerance of Brazilian converts³ (100-103)

in the 1st halt of the 20th Century the IPB faced a context of fear of N. American imperialism and the equation of Brazilian and Catholic identities⁴ (104)

near extinction under Vargas in 1937, coup threatened to suspend freedom of worship⁵ (105)

1964 coup opportunity for IPB to affirm national roots filling void left by RCC⁶ (105)

support of coup linked to elite nature of IPB⁷ (107)

internal purge: 1) centralization 2) impoverished theological education 3) alienation from national theological community 4) alienation from international Presbyterianism⁸ (107-109)

loss of role in the nation with the end of the military regime⁹

1H Cavalcanti, “Political Cooperation and Religious Repression: Presbyterians under Military Rule in Brazil (1964-1974),” Review of Religious Research 34:2 (1992) 97-116, 99.

2H Cavalcanti, “Political Cooperation and Religious Repression: Presbyterians under Military Rule in Brazil (1964-1974),” Review of Religious Research 34:2 (1992) 97-116, 100.

3H Cavalcanti, “Political Cooperation and Religious Repression: Presbyterians under Military Rule in Brazil (1964-1974),” Review of Religious Research 34:2 (1992) 97-116, 100–103.

4H Cavalcanti, “Political Cooperation and Religious Repression: Presbyterians under Military Rule in Brazil (1964-1974),” Review of Religious Research 34:2 (1992) 97-116, 104.

5H Cavalcanti, “Political Cooperation and Religious Repression: Presbyterians under Military Rule in Brazil (1964-1974),” Review of Religious Research 34:2 (1992) 97-116, 105.

6H Cavalcanti, “Political Cooperation and Religious Repression: Presbyterians under Military Rule in Brazil (1964-1974),” Review of Religious Research 34:2 (1992) 97-116, 105.

7H Cavalcanti, “Political Cooperation and Religious Repression: Presbyterians under Military Rule in Brazil (1964-1974),” Review of Religious Research 34:2 (1992) 97-116, 107.

8H Cavalcanti, “Political Cooperation and Religious Repression: Presbyterians under Military Rule in Brazil (1964-1974),” Review of Religious Research 34:2 (1992) 97-116, 107–109.

9H Cavalcanti, “Political Cooperation and Religious Repression: Presbyterians under Military Rule in Brazil (1964-1974),” Review of Religious Research 34:2 (1992) 97-116, 110–111.