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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"One of the best books that has been written on religion and politics in Latin America. It is theoretically deft and empirically rich."--Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>For a generation, the Catholic Church in Brazil has enjoyed international renown as one of the most progressive social forces in Latin America. The Church's creation of Christian Base Communities (CEBs), groups of Catholics who learn to read the Bible as a call for social justice, has been widely hailed. Still, in recent years it has become increasingly clear that the CEBs are lagging far behind the explosive growth of Brazil's two other major national religious movements-Pentacostalism and Afro-Brazilian <i>Umbanda</i>.<br /><br />On the basis of his extensive fieldwork in Rio di Janeiro, including detailed life histories of women, blacks, youths, and the marginal poor, John Burdick offers the first in-depth explanation of why the radical Catholic Church is losing, and Pentecostalism and <i>Umbanda</i> winning, the battle for souls in urban Brazil.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>'Looking for God in Brazil provides the literature on Latin American popular religion with a lucid, coherent, and long-overdue ground-level ethnography of class, gender, and politics and convincingly brings the factors of youth and race into the debate.' - David A. Smilde, American Journal of Sociology<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John Burdick</b> is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University.

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