Christianity of liberation, prosperity theology, and perspectives of class struggle in Brazil

ABSTRACT This text synthesizes the onset, development, and collapse of Christianity Liberation in its relationship with working class. When Vatican qualified liberation theology as heresy 1984, space occupied by Christian Base Communities (Comunidades Eclesiais de Base) became dominated a new segment, attracting more underprivileged people to their religious business ventures. For this reason, paper will analyze educational role played setting up organizing masses consequence reflux, which is concomitant processes pentecostalization Brazilian Christianity. Since then, have been faced crossroads posed growth (neo) pentecostal religions consortium prosperity popular union movements are refluxing.