PHILLIP BERRYMAN
IS LATIN AMERICAN TURNING PLURALIST?
CATHOLICS AND EVANGELICALS IN SAO PAULO AND CARACAS
WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 20, 1995
4:00 PM
Benjamin Franklin Room
2nd floor, Houston Hall
34th and Spruce Streets, University of Pennsylvania
The Brazilian pentecostal leader, Caio Fabio d'Araujo
told a reporter, "The Catholic church opted for the poor,
but the poor opted for the evangelicals." In some parts of
Latin America, the numbers of active evangelicals is on a
par with that of church going Catholics. On the basis of
field work in Sao Paulo and Caracas, Phillip Berryman will
discuss the implications of recent evangelical growth for
the churches, Catholic and Protestant, and for Latin
American society.
Phillip Berryman is an independent scholar and author
of five books on Latin American religion and politics,
including: THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF REBELLION, INSIDE CENTRAL
AMERICA, LIBERATION THEOLOGY, and most recently STUBBORN
HOPE: RELIGION, POLITICS, AND REVOLUTION IN AMERICA. He
serves as Central America consultant to the American Friends
Service Committee, and has worked and conducted research in
Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Panama, Brazil,
Venezuela.
The Latin American Cultures Program of the University
of Pennsylvania is an interdisciplinary scholarly group
which meets monthly. It features presentation and
discussion of recent work by faculty, visiting scholars, and
graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania. The
Seminar welcomes participants from outside the University as
well.
-- Latin American Cultures Program, Univ. of Pennsylvania 535 Williams Hall, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305 Tel.: (215) 898-9919; Fax: (215) 898-0933; Email: lacp@sas.upenn.edu