The Catholic Church And Politics In Nicaragua And Costa Rica

Author : Philip J. Williams
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822975427

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The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica by Philip J. Williams Pdf

Unlike most recent studies of the Catholic Church in Latin America, Philip J. Williams analyzes the Church in two very dissimilar political contexts-Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Despite the obvious differences, Williams argues that in both cases the Church has responded to social change in remarkably similar fashion. The efforts of progressive clergy to promote change in both countries have been largely blocked by Church hierarchy, fearful that such change will threaten the Church's influence in society.

Author : John M. Kirk
Publisher : Gainesville, Fla : University Press of Florida
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0813011388

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Politics and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua by John M. Kirk Pdf

Guerrilla-priests and liberation theology are not new phenomena in Nicaragua. Ever since the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, Catholic Church leaders have played a major role in that country's politics. The result, John Kirk writes, is a polarized church, one with a progressive minority at loggerheads with the conservative hierarchy. Kirk sets each stage of the church-state debate in a historical continuum, then examines the forty-year period of Somocismo and the Sandinista period (1979-90) that followed. This social revolution - blending nationalism, Marxism, and Catholicism - dared to be different, he claims, and accordingly it paid the price. Kirk wrote this book following three trips to Nicaragua during the 1980s, when he witnessed firsthand the social polarization occurring at the time. But the involvement of the Catholic Church in Nicaraguan politics is not exceptional, he says: "Most - if not all - religions are also encumbered with socio-political concerns that go beyond the essentially 'religious.'"

Author : Manzar Foroohar
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887068642

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The Catholic Church and Social Change in Nicaragua by Manzar Foroohar Pdf

This book presents an in-depth, uniquely historical perspective on Nicaragua, focusing on the key role of the Catholic Church in the political, social, and religious issues that confront this country today. It examines the profound transformation of the Church via the radical approach of liberation theology and the development of the clergy's socio-political alliances in Nicaragua. Foroohar's analysis highlights the complex role of religion in politics and social change in Latin America.

Author : Andrew Bradstock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X001278956

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Saints and Sandinistas by Andrew Bradstock Pdf

Author : Ana María Ezcurra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Catholics
ISBN : UOM:39015024782214

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Ideological Aggression Against the Sandinista Revolution by Ana María Ezcurra Pdf

Author : Michael Dodson,Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807861066

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Nicaragua's Other Revolution by Michael Dodson,Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy Pdf

The 1979 rebellion in Nicaragua was the first in modern Latin America to be carried out with the active participation and support of Christians. Like all revolutions, the Nicaraguan Revolution has provoked controversy and hostility, and the Christian presence has been a focal point in the debate. In this work Michael Dodson and Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy offer a detailed study of the religious sources of the revolution set against the backgound of the revolutionary traditions of the United States. Nicaragua's Other Revolution places the experience of the Nicaraguan Revolution in a historical framework that extends back to the Protestant Reformation and in an institutional framework that encompasses the whole of Nicaraguan politics. Examining the broad process of religious change, this work explores how that process interacted with the political struggles that culminated in the revolution. Dodson and O'Shaughnessy conclude that the religious values and attitudes arising out of postconciliar renewal in the church contributed powerfully to demands for revolutionary change in Nicaragua. In England and America the Protestant Reformation gave a tremendous boost to demands for democratic changes in society and politics. This work shows that something similar happened in Catholic Central America in the post-Medellin period. Changes in religious thought and action were part of, and served to reinforce and stimulate, a wider movement for social and political change. Without denying the importance of Marxism, the authors demonstrate that other important influences are at work there. Originally published in 1990. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy,Luis Serra
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023186128

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The Church and Revolution in Nicaragua by Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy,Luis Serra Pdf

This volume addresses the complex issue of the Christian response to the Nicaraguan revolution from a perspective generally sympathetic to the Sandinista's goals. Luis Serra, himself a Latin American who has worked with the peasantry, argues that the institutional Church has now become a major autonomous source of opposition to the revolution. Laura O'Shaughnessy, analyzing the years leading up to the 1979 revolution and through the Papal visit of 1983, argues that the Church heirarchy has mistrusted the revolution as a threat to its traditional authority. Both authors view the involvement of the progressive clergy in the revolution as the best way to keep the revolution "Christian," both as an institution and as "the people of God," in revolutionary times, and they ask if Church-state conflict is inevitable at the outset of a social revolution or if adaptation and accommodation are possible.

Author : Fernando Cardenal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Clergy - Office
ISBN : OCLC:1425495722

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The political role of ministers of the Catholic church in Nicaragua by Fernando Cardenal Pdf

Author : Margaret Randall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017257957

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Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution by Margaret Randall Pdf

"The controversy within the Catholic Church over the concept of liberation theology raises the questions: is there room in Christian philosophy for a socialist society? And is there a place in a socialist society? Nicaragua's recent experience, says Margaret Randall, shows the answer to these questions to be "yes". The dominant role Christianity played in the Nicaraguan revolution both before and after the 1979 overthrow of the Somoza regime shows that the concrete goals shared by the two ideologies, Christianity and Marxism, outweigh their theoretical contradictions. The main part of Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution consists of long narratives by members of two Christian base communities with key roles in the Nicaraguan revolution. Solentiname is the retreat founded in the mid-sixties by Father Ernesto Cardenal -- now Nicaragua's minister of culture -- on a remote island in Lake Nicaragua. El Riguero is an urban community, founded in 1972 by father Uriel Molina in a Managua barrio. Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution features the voices of "ordinary" believers as well as those of well-known religious and political leaders" -- Back cover.

Author : Margaret E. Crahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Church and state
ISBN : UVA:X001246971

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The Church and Revolution by Margaret E. Crahan Pdf

Author : Dana Sawchuk
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889209343

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The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and the Rights of Workers, 1979-1996 by Dana Sawchuk Pdf

Provides a new understanding of the relationship between Church and State in 20th-century Costa Rica. Understanding the relationship between religion and social justice in Costa Rica involves piecing together the complex interrelationships between Church and State — between priests, popes, politics, and the people. This book does just that. Dana Sawchuk chronicles the fortunes of the country’s two competing forms of labour organizations during the 1980s and demonstrates how different factions within the Church came to support either the union movement or Costa Rica’s home-grown Solidarity movement. Challenging the conventional understanding of Costa Rica as a wholly peaceful and prosperous nation, and traditional interpretations of Catholic Social Teaching, this book introduces readers to a Church largely unknown outside Costa Rica. Sawchuk has carefully analyzed material from a multitude of sources — interviews, newspapers, books, and articles, as well as official Church documents, editorials, and statements by Church representativesto provide a firmly rooted socio-economic history of the experiences of workers, and the Catholic Church’s responses to workers in Costa Rica.

Author : Dermot Keogh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349096619

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Church and Politics in Latin America by Dermot Keogh Pdf

Complex and profound changes have been taking place in the Latin American Catholic Church in the 20th century which have often been misunderstood and misrepresented. This is a collection of essays written by scholars working in the fields of history, political science, sociology, law and theology.

Author : Humberto Belli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018441215

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Breaking Faith by Humberto Belli Pdf

From the John Holmes Library Collection.

Author : Debra Sabia
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817357771

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Contradiction and Conflict by Debra Sabia Pdf

Sabia examines the complex interaction of religious belief and political inspiration among internal divisions of Nicaragua's popular church.

Author : David Haslam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015014738358

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Faith in Struggle by David Haslam Pdf