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The essays in this volume assess the ways in which the Catholic Church in Latin America is dealing with these political, religious, and social changes.
Author : Frances Hagopian
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Page : 532 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
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The essays in this volume assess the ways in which the Catholic Church in Latin America is dealing with these political, religious, and social changes.
Author : Frances Hagopian
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2022-09-30
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ISBN : 9780268206765
The essays in this volume assess the ways in which the Catholic Church in Latin America is dealing with these political, religious, and social changes.
Author : Paul E. Sigmund
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606086731
In his introduction, Paul Sigmund states that the growing religious pluralism in Latin America is one of several reasons why the trend toward democracy that has marked the last two decades may endure. Nevertheless, Sigmund notes that this new pluralism, particularly the growth of Protestantism, has led to tensions that must be resolved. Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America provides an indispensable resource for understanding the range of issues confronting the continent, offering Catholic as well as Protestant perspectives, and trenchant analyses of the situation in different countries, including Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Cuba.
Author : Jeffrey Klaiber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606089471
No book in any language equals The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America for its comparative breadth. Historians, social scientists, and general readers will cull from it the conditions needed for the church to play a positive and creative role in furthering human rights and democracy. -John A. Coleman, SJ Loyola Marymount University Jeffrey Klaiber's book offers a wonderfully informative history of the Church's role in Latin American struggles to defend human rights and achieve democracy. Anyone who has followed with concern and interest these recent struggles-from military dictatorships in Brazil and Chile, through the violent conflicts in Central America, to the most recent struggles in Chiapas, Mexico-will find this remarkably comprehensive study of eleven different nations an invaluable text. -Arthur F. McGovern, SJ University of Detroit This volume provides readers with the first comprehensive view of the church during a defining period of Latin American history. This is an invaluable study by a longtime and astute observer. -Edward L. Cleary, OP Providence College A compelling account of the role of the church during the dictatorships and internal wars in eleven countries of Latin America . . . by an eminent historian. -Gerald H. Anderson Director of Overseas Ministries Study Center
Author : William H. Swatos
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release :
Category : History
ISBN : 9781412832922
Drawn from the pages of Sociological Analysis/Sociology of Religion, this collection of original essays demonstrates the complexity of the religious structure of Latin America, discussing interactions among Protestant and Roman Catholic religious movements, and democratic as well as antidemocratic political agendas.
Author : Daniel H. Levine
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 9781588268525
Long assumed to be an unchanging and unquestioned bulwark of established power and privilege, religion in Latin America has diversified and flourished, while taking on new social and political roles in more open societies. How did this change occur? Why did churches in the region embrace new ideas about rights, sponsor social movements, and become advocates for democracy? Are further changes on the horizon? Daniel Levine explores these issues, uniquely situating the Latin American experience in a rich theoretical and comparative context.
Author : Ken Serbin
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Brazil
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Author : Eric Patterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135412847
The purpose of this study is to focus on the intersection of religion and politics. Do different religions result in different politics? More specifically, are there significant contrasts between the political attitudes and behavior of Catholics and Protestants in Latin America?
Author : Paul Freston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2008-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199721246
In Latin America, evangelical Protestantism poses an increasing challenge to Catholicism's long-established religious hegemony. At the same time, the region is among the most generally democratic outside the West, despite often being labeled as 'underdeveloped.' Scholars disagree whether Latin American Protestantism, as a fast-growing and predominantly lower-class phenomenon, will encourage a political culture that is repressive and authoritarian, or if it will have democratizing effects. Drawing from a range of sources, Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America provides case studies of five countries: Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Guatemala, and Nicaragua. The contributors, mainly scholars based in Latin America, bring first hand-knowledge to their chapters. The result is a groundbreaking work that explores the relationship between Latin American evangelicalism and politics, its influences, manifestations, and prospects for the future. Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America is one of four volumes in the series Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in the Global South, which seeks to answer the question: What happens when a revivalist religion based on scriptural orthodoxy participates in the volatile politics of the Third World? At a time when the global-political impact of another revivalist and scriptural religion - Islam - fuels vexed debate among analysts the world over, these volumes offer an unusual comparative perspective on a critical issue: the often combustible interaction of resurgent religion and the developing world's unstable politics.
Author : Scott Mainwaring
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804745987
Christian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1960s, and Costa Rica and Mexico in the 1980s. This book offers an overview of Christian Democracy in the region underscoring its remarkable diversityand examines the Christian Democratic organizations of Chile and Mexico, which are still major parties today. The concluding section analyzes the demise of formerly significant Christian Democratic parties in El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela. Christian Democracy in Latin America provides the definitive stufy of the nature, rise, and decline of Christian Democracy in Latin America. The book enriches the broader theoretical literature on political parties by highlighting the distinctive strategic dilemmas parties face, and the distinctive objectives they pursue, in contexts of fragile democracy or of authoritarian regimes.