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Daughters of Rahab : prostitution and the church of liberation in Brazil

Title
  1. Daughters of Rahab : prostitution and the church of liberation in Brazil / Margaret Eletta Guider.
Published by
  1. Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©1995.
Author
  1. Guider, Margaret Eletta, 1951-

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Description
  1. xiv, 235 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. Employing the biblical narrative of Rahab the Harlot as a framework, Guider recounts the 500-year history and social meaning of prostitution in Brazil. She then tracks the Brazilian church's increasing consciousness of the issues and its determination to address the plight of prostitutes as marginalized women, as victims not sinners. Yet Guider shows that the church's sponsorship from 1974 to 1990 of eight "national encounters" for marginalized women inexorably revealed the limits of liberation for a church that, in the last analysis, could sooner abandon its class privileges than its doctrinal patrimony, especially its historical legacy concerning women. Primary documents are also included.
Series statement
  1. Harvard theological studies ; 40
Uniform title
  1. Harvard theological studies ; no. 40.
Subject
  1. Catholic Church > Brazil > History > 20th century
  2. Catholic Church > Doctrines > History > 20th century
  3. Catholic Church > History > 20th century
  4. Catholic Church
  5. 1900-1999
  6. Church work with prostitutes > Brazil > History > 20th century
  7. Church work with prostitutes > Catholic Church > History > 20th century
  8. Prostitution > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
  9. Liberation theology
  10. 11.54 Roman Catholicism
  11. Church work with prostitutes > Catholic Church
  12. Church work with prostitutes
  13. Liberation theology
  14. Prostitution > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
  15. Social conditions
  16. Theology, Doctrinal
  17. Prostitution
  18. Theologie der Befreiung
  19. Prostituees
  20. Rooms-Katholieke Kerk
  21. Bevrijdingstheologie
  22. Brazil > Church history > 20th century
  23. Brazil > Social conditions
  24. Brazil
  25. Brasilien
Genre/Form
  1. Church history
  2. History
Contents
  1. Introduction: Christianity and Prostitution: Methods, Resources, and Principles for Inquiry and Interpretation -- Ch. 1. The Ecclesiastical Challenge of Rahab the Harlot: The Prostitute as an Exemplar of Faith and Justice -- Ch. 2. Prostitution in Brazil: Historical Perspectives -- Ch. 3. The Church of Liberation and the Problem of Prostitution -- Ch. 4. The Church, Marginalized Women, and the Limits of Liberation -- Ch. 5. Toward a Theology of Incarnate Presence for the World Church -- Ch. 6. Conclusion: Marginalized Women, the Church, and the New Evangelization -- Appendix: A Documentary History of the Pastoral da Mulher Marginalizada.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.