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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Note on the Interviews | |
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| Issues and Contexts | |
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| Popular Voices | |
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| Defining and Finding Popular Groups | |
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| Initial Perspectives on Theory and Practice | |
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| Studies in Latin America | |
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| Studying Popular Groups, Hearing Popular Voices | |
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| The Structure of This Book | |
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| Liberation Theology, Base Communities, and the Pattern of Change in Latin America | |
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| Context and Conjuncture: The Pattern of Change in Latin America | |
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| Central Ideas in Liberation Theology | |
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| Liberation Theology and Base Communities: Ideas and Action | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Colombia and Venezuela: Nations, Churches, and Programs | |
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| State, Politics, and Associational Life | |
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| Socioeconomic and Demographic Contrasts | |
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| The Churches: Contrasts in Structure, Ideology, and Organizational Strategy | |
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| Popular Work: Alternative Views | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Colombia and Venezuela: Dioceses, Villages, and Barrios | |
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| Facatativa | |
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| Barquisimeto | |
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| Cali | |
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| Comparative Perspectives | |
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| Actors and Experiences | |
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| Being Religious, Reading the Bible, Becoming Church | |
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| Being Religious and Reading the Bible | |
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| Biblical Texts and Readings | |
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| Becoming Church: Varieties of Popular Experience | |
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| Transforming Popular Religion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Popular Needs and Popular Ideals | |
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| Being Poor | |
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| Fellowship, Sociability, and Self-Image | |
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| Images of Church and Clergy | |
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| Empowering the Poor | |
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| Priests, Sisters, and Pastoral Agents | |
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| Background and Personal History | |
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| Working | |
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| Opting for the Poor, Popular Religion, and the Nature of Groups | |
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| Two Matched Profiles | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Selected Life Histories | |
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| Huberto Vanegas: A Lay Pastoral Agent | |
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| Two Colombian Women: Olga Ceballos and Susanna Madrid | |
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| Two Peasant Men: Fortunato Duque and Patricio Alvarez | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Theoretical and Comparative Reflections | |
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| Linking Everyday Life with Big Structures | |
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| Consciousness, Ideology, and Culture | |
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| Mediators, Mediations, and the Question of Democracy | |
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| A Note on Class | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Future of Popular Voices | |
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| Reprise | |
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| Explaining Change | |
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| Are Popular Voices Unique? | |
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| Facing the Future | |
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| Knowing about the Future | |
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| Envoi | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |