Oddly for a paradigm-shifting education book, this book is frequently this explicitly religious in character. As noted, for example, in chapters 8 and 10, Freire explicitly claims that to be effective, teachers must personally live through a kind of existential “Easter” that awakens them to a full Marxist political consciousness (otherwise, they are “necrophiliac,” death-loving, as used by the neo-Marxist psychologist Erich Fromm, whom Freire cites).
