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Needs of the Heart - A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries (Paperback)
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Needs of the Heart - A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries (Paperback)
Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
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Needs of the Heart traces five centuries of conflict and change in
the life of the clergy in Brazil, home to the world's largest and
arguably the most dynamic branch of the Roman Catholic Church.
Serbin examines how priests participated in the colonization of
Brazil, educated the elite and poor in the faith, propped up the
socioeconomic status quo, and reinforced the institution of
slavery, all the while living in relative freedom from church
authority. Earthy men, many flouted the rule of celibacy and became
embroiled in politics. Serbin also describes the conservative
modernization of the clergy, effected through seminary education,
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Emphasizing
discipline, the seminaries aimed to mold a new kind of
priest-moral, isolated from politics and social entanglements, and,
above all, obedient and celibate. However, the social, cultural,
and religious upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s led students to
reject the seminary. Seminarians worked to form a national union,
and many left seminaries to establish greater contact with the
people. The seminarians' movement sparked the practice of
liberation theology; it also reflected the quest for professional
and individual development, including optional celibacy. The Church
responded to its seminarians' demands for personalized education by
attempting to build an ambitious program in liberation psychology,
a phenomenon as important as liberation theology. Seminaries
necessarily dealt in the psychology of sexuality, friendship, and
other basic human tendencies-what historian Marc Bloch has called
the "secret needs of the heart." Serbin argues that the "needs of
the heart" were a cause of the political transformation of the
Brazilian Church, a transformation catalyzed by the profound
identity crisis experienced by clergymen and seminarians in the
1960s and 1970s. The story of this generation of seminarians and
priests is intermingled with the challenges and fears present
during the repressive military dictatorship (1964 to 1985) and its
aftermath. Serbin's definitive history of the Brazilian clergy
combines social science research, including over one hundred
interviews, with cultural and social theory and a sweeping
historical perspective. Through his history of the clergy and
seminaries, he provides a history of modern Brazil itself.
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