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BOOKS PUBLISHED

 

Diálogos na sombra (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2001) (special revised and expanded Brazilian edition of Secret Dialogues [see below]). Winner of the Book Prize of the Brazil Section of the Latin American Studies Association (March 2003). 

 

O bispo de Volta Redonda: memórias de Dom Waldyr Calheiros, co-authored with Célia Costa and Dulce Pandolfi (Rio de Janeiro: Editora da Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 2001).

 

Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000).

 

ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS PUBLISHED

 

“Do autoritarismo à democracia: mapeando a longa evolução dos militares brasileiros,” in CPDOC 30 anos (Rio de Janeiro: Editora FGV; CPDOC, 2003), 121-29.

 

“Dom Hélder Câmara: Father of the Brazilian Church of the Poor,” in The Human Tradition in Brazil, ed. Peter Beattie (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Books, 2003).

 

Dom Hélder Câmara: pai do catolicismo progressista brasileiro,” in Perfis cruzados: trajetórias e militância política no Brasil do século XX, ed. Beatriz Kushnir (Rio de Janeiro: Imago, 2002).

 

“The Catholic Church, Religious Pluralism, and Democracy in Brazil,” in Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes, eds. Timothy Power and Peter Kingstone (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000), 144-61. (Also published in Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Papers Series, No. 263, Feb. 1999.)

 

Brazil: Religious Tolerance, Church-State Relations, and the Challenge of Pluralism,” in Evangelization and Religious Freedom in Latin America, ed. Paul E. Sigmund (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1999), 204-19.

 

“The Anatomy of a Death: Human Rights, Repression, and the Case of Alexandre Vannucchi Leme in Authoritarian Brazil,” Journal of Latin American Studies 30 (1998), 1-33. Also published in Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Papers Series, No. 248, January 1998, and (Portuguese version) Teoria e Pesquisa, Nos. 20-23 (1997), 1-23.

 

Um episódio esquecido da repressão,” in Mortos e Desaparecidos Políticos: Reparação ou Impunidade?, ed. Janaína Teles (São Paulo: Editora Humanitas), 99-105. (Also published in Folha de São Paulo, March 30, 1997, section “Mais,” p. 12, and Jornal do DCE [University of São Paulo], April 1998, “Suplemento Cultural,” 2-3).

 

"Church-State Reciprocity in Contemporary Brazil: The Convening of the International Eucharistic Congress of 1955 in Rio de Janeiro,” Hispanic American Historical Review (Nov. 1996), 721-51. (An earlier version was published in the Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Papers Series, No. 229, August 1996.)

 

“O diálogo secreto de bispos e generais nos anos da repressão,” Estado de São Paulo, Caderno X, March 3, 1996.

 

"Brazil: State Subsidization and the Church Since 1930," in Organized Religion in the Political Transformation of Latin America, ed. Satya Pattnayak (New York: University Press of America, 1995), 153-75.

 

"Collor's Impeachment and the Struggle for Change," North-South Focus, Vol. II, No. 2, 1993.

 

"Latin America's Catholic Church: Religious Rivalries and the North-South Divide," North-South Issues, Vol. II, No. 1, 1993.

 

"Catholic Institutions and State Subsidies: A Contribution to the Economic and Political History of the Brazilian Church," Kellogg Institute for International Studies Working Paper No. 181, 1992.

 

"Os seminários: crise, experiências, síntese," in Catolicismo, ed. Pierre Sanchis, vol. 1: Modernidade e tradição (São Paulo: Edições Paulinas, 1992), pp. 91-151.

 

"Igreja, estado e a ajuda financeira pública no Brasil, 1930-1964: estudos de três casos chaves," Textos CPDOC (Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 1991).

 

"Dom Antônio Celso Queiroz (entrevista)," Comunicações do ISER, year 9 (1990), No. 38, pp. 77-79.

 

"O silêncio da mídia norte-americana," Comunicações do ISER, year 9 (1990), No. 38, pp. 27-29.

 

BOOK REVIEWS and REVIEW ESSAYS

 

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil, by Seth Garfield (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001), American Historical Review 108:3 (June 2003), 887-888.

 

The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization, by Timothy J. Power (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), forthcoming in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe.

 

“'Bowling Alone,' Bishops’ Biographies, and Baptism by Blood: New Views of Progressive Catholicism in Brazil,” review essay of eight books on Brazilian religion, Latin American Politics and Society, winter 2001.

 

Rendering Unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America, by Anthony Gill (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 41:2 (1999), 136-40.

 

Born Again in Brazil, by Andrew Chesnut (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998), in Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 41:1 (1998), 104-09.

 

Brazilian Catholicism and the Ultramontane Reform, 1850-1930, by C.F.G. de Groot (Amsterdam: CEDLA, 1996), in The Americas 53:3 (Jan. 1997), 455-57.

 

Coping With Poverty, by Cecília Loreto Mariz (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), in Journal of Church & State 39:2 (spring 1997), 360-61.

 

The New Latin American Mission History, eds. Erick Langer and Robert H. Jackson (Lincoln, Neb. and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995), in Journal of Latin American Studies 28 (1996), 688-89.

 

. . . E o Verbo se Fez Imagem, by Ralph Della Cava and Paula Montero (Petrópolis: Vozes, 1991), in Luso-Brazilian Review, Winter 1992.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Tiros em Columbine à Carioca,” Valor (July 11-13, 2003), 16-17.

 

“Vencendo a ignorância,” Valor (June 20-22, 2003), 14-15.

 

Lula, Bush e o New Deal,” CartaCapital 9:226 (Feb. 5, 2003).

 

Capacidade de negociação os aproxima” (article on Bush-Lula meeting) Valor (Dec. 10, 2002), A9.

 

Lula’s Last Chance,” In These Times 26:23 (Oct. 14, 2002), 18-19.

 

“De volta à pedra de Pedro,” Valor (May 24-26, 2002), weekend supplement “Eu & Fim de Semana,” 3:101:16-17. (Also published as “Abusos, sexualidade e poder,” Jornal Rumos 20:177 [Aug./Sept. 2002], 7-8).

 

“Remembering Hélder Câmara: Faith, Power and the Poor,” The Christian Century, 116:25 (Sept. 22-29, 1999), 884-85.

 

Brazilian Church builds international empire,” The Christian Century (April 10, 1996), 398-403.

 

Pastoral Agents Movement Raises Black Awareness,” in Fighting for the Soul of Brazil, eds. Kevin Danaher and Michael Shellenberger (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1995), 184-88.

 

“Simmering abortion debate goes public in Brazil,” The Christian Century (March 8, 1995) 266-271.

 

“Prophet from the favelas: an interview with Benedita da Silva,” The Christian Century (May 5, 1993), 489-492.

 

"Latin America's Catholics: Postliberationism?" Christianity and Crisis, 52:18 (December 14, 1992), 403-407. 

“Catholic Bishops Renew Missionary Efforts to Stem Growth of ‘Sects,’” Christianity Today (December 14, 1992), 46, 48.

 

 

 

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