Latinoamerican theology of liberation and social movements: Critical thought and contra-hegemonic articulation, since the Brazilian social process

Abstract

This is an analysis of Latin-America’s Theology of Liberation, since a Brazilian experience (that means: “critical reflections of the historical fight of Latin-American people”) like process of theoretical articulation, politics and sociocultural contra-hegemonic. This is a theoretical consolidation of Critical Thought with a new Latin-American subjectivity, a “historical subject” of Latin-American. An organization of New Social Movements as a significant contribution to the construction of “hegemonía popular desde abajo”, now that it promotes the protagonist role of the “poor” in the generation of power and the struggle against the dominant and unfair legality of the capitalist system.