Abstract
From the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, leaders of the Brazilian liberation theology spurred initiatives to create a network of autonomous entities to elaborate frameworks and instrumentalize political activists. This study examines two of them, namely: the Ecumenical Center for Services to Evangelization and Popular Education (CESEEP), founded in 1982 and based in São Paulo, and the National Faith and Politics Movement (MF&P), launched in 1989 and anchored in the Center for the Defense of Human Rights of Petrópolis (CDDH). Such investigation involves understanding their place within Liberation Theology and their action strategies for political formation.
Keywords
Liberation Theology; civil network; political formation; political activism; socialism