John Burdick is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. He is author of Legacies of Liberation: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil at the Start of a New Millennium (2004), Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race and Popular Christianity in Brazil (1998), and Looking for God in Brazil (1993). He is co-editor, with Ted Hewitt, of The Church at the Grassroots: Perspectives on Thirty Years of Activism (2000).