1Black Religion and Social Justice in Brazil: The M o v im e n to N e g r o in the Roman Catholic Church

The struggle for social justice has been the dominant theme of the various theologies of liberation originating in Latin America and now spread throughout the third world. While liberation theology has traditionally focused on issues of economic justice defined in terms of class conflict, more recently liberation theology has been influential in the rise of feminist and black theologies. This paper examines a specific cas