ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates the fruitfulness of this approach through a limited comparison of a CEB and a Pentecostal church. It suggests illiterates, people with heavy and inflexible labor schedules, married women facing domestic conflict, and people who identify themselves as negros find the CEB less effective than Pentecostalism in helping them cope with their respective predicaments. In the decades before the arrival of the CEB model, illiterates rarely had roles of leadership in the Catholic church. At the same time, priests had never demanded from nonleaders either literacy or special articulateness but had simply expected them to learn prayer litanies and hymns and to recite them dutifully during masses and novenas. The CEB's demands for participation also make membership difficult for men who have to take on heavy or inflexible labor schedules. The chapter also suggests a major contributing factor is the difference between how the two religions address the problem of domestic conflict.
