Introduction / José Oscar Beozzo, Luiz Carlos Susin
The formation of the Brazilian people / Luiz Eduardo W. Wanderley
New Age: an errant religious culture in Brazil today / Leila Amaral
Fifty years of the CNBB: a bishops' conference based on the council: evangelization projects; political and ecclesiastical tensions and challenges / Cardinal Aloísio Lorscheider
The origins of Medellin: from Catholic action to the base church communities and social pastoral strategy (1950-68) / Luiz Alberto Gómez de Souza
Stories of faith and life in the base communities / Faustino Teixeira
The struggle for modern and ancestral rights: thirty years of the Indianist Missionary Council (CIMI) / Paulo Suess
The struggle for a just land policy / Tomás Balduino
Pastoral strategy in the Brazilian mega-cities / João Batista Libânio
Shifts in theology: socio-ecclesiastical changes: recent developments in theology in Brazil / Carlos Palacio
The contribution of Brazilian ecclesiology to the universal church / Leonardo Boff
The globalization of continental challenges: a call from Brazil on understanding the Christian faith / Agenor Brighenti
Pentecostal flames in contemporary Brazil / Brenda Maribel Carranza Dávila
Women in the Brazilian church / Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
Afro-Brazilians and the church: open wounds, scars, and hopes /

Afonso Maria Ligorio Soares
Church and politics in Brazil today / Francisco Whitaker Ferreira
Open letter to the soul of Brazil / Pedro Casaldáliga
Documentation: '...and the earth was without form and void': a brief account of a solidarity visit to Palestine / Paulo Suess.