| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.3

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Kenneth P. Serbin. Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil's Clergy and Seminaries. (Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies.) Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2006. Pp. xix, 476. $60.00.

Despite the long shadow that the Catholic Church cast over colonial, imperial, and twentieth-century Brazil, historians have shied away from examining its internal dynamics and its role in the larger society. Most histories, both surveys and monographs, include some material on the church, yet there have been no dedicated studies of the role of the church in Brazil for thirty years. Kenneth P. Serbin's superb new study offers a comprehensive look at the church from the colonial period to the end of the military government in the 1980s. He takes the long view in order to demonstrate his central argument: that the "progressive" Catholic Church of the twentieth century, with its political activism and social consciousness, did not emerge out of a void but rather developed out of patterns already set in the colonial period that shifted as they played out against the backdrop of a changing Brazil.

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