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Gender, Catholicism, and morality in Brazil, virtuous husbands, powerful wives, Maya Mayblin

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-205) and index

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Gender, Catholicism, and morality in Brazil

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Maya Mayblin

Contemporary anthropology of religion

virtuous husbands, powerful wives

Through the ethnography of a Catholic community in Northeast Brazil, this book offers a vivid and provocative rethinking of gendered portrayals of Catholic life., Through the ethnography of a Catholic community in Northeast Brazil, Maya Mayblin offers a vivid and provocative rethink of gendered portrayals of Catholic life. For the residents of Santa Lucia, life is conceptualized as a series of moral tradeoffs between the sinful and productive world against an idealized state of innocence, conceived with reference to local Catholic teachings. As marriage marks the beginning of a productive life in the world, it also marks a phase in which moral personhood comes most actively - and poignantly - to the fore. This book offers lucid observations on how men and women as husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, negotiate this challenge. As well as making an important contribution to the ethnographic literature on morality, Christianity, and Latin America, the book offers a compelling alternative to received portrayals of gender polarity as symbolically all-encompassing, throughout the Catholic world