The Church Dictatorships And Democracy In Latin America

Author : Jeffrey Klaiber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606089477

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The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America by Jeffrey Klaiber Pdf

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 : Jeffrey L. Klaiber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : Authoritarianism
ISBN : 1570752141

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The Church, Dictatorships and Democracy in Latin America by Jeffrey L. Klaiber Pdf

Author : William H. Swatos
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1412832926

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Religion and Democracy in Latin America by William H. Swatos Pdf

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 : Dermot Keogh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Mala Htun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521008794

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Sex and the State by Mala Htun Pdf

Abortion, divorce, and the family: how did the state make policy decisions in these areas in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the last third of the twentieth century? As the three countries transitioned from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted challenges posed by the rise of the feminist movement, social changes, and the power of the Catholic Church. The results were often surprising: women's rights were expanded under military dictatorships, divorce was legalized in authoritarian Brazil but not in democratic Chile, and no Latin American country changed its laws on abortion. Sex and the State explores these patterns of gender-related policy reform and shows how they mattered for the peoples of Latin America and for a broader understanding of the logic behind the state's role in shaping private lives and gender relations everywhere.

Author : Thomas Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000395344

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Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America by Thomas Draper Pdf

Author : Frances Hagopian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078809152

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Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America by Frances Hagopian Pdf

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 Freston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199721246

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Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America by Paul Freston Pdf

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,Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107433632

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Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring,Aníbal Pérez-Liñán Pdf

This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that look at the decisions of specific leaders. They focus on the political preferences of powerful actors - the degree to which they embrace democracy as an intrinsically desirable end and their policy radicalism - to explain regime outcomes. They also demonstrate that transnational forces and influences are crucial to understand regional waves of democratization. Based on extensive research into the political histories of all twenty Latin American countries, this book offers the first extended analysis of regime emergence, survival and failure for all of Latin America over a long period of time.

Author : Henry A. Landsberger,Emanuel Jehuda De Kadt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Religion
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172017771679

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The Church and Social Change in Latin America by Henry A. Landsberger,Emanuel Jehuda De Kadt Pdf

Author : Massimo Sciarretta
Publisher : History
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : History
ISBN : 8869773752

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Faith in Democracy by Massimo Sciarretta Pdf

The current work historically reconstructs the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985. If in Latin America the denial of identity and rights has for centuries gone hand in hand with the role played by the Church in Brazil, in the twenty years covered by the book the national Catholic Church managed to establish itself as the only democratic bastion against the army, not only acting to safeguard trampled human rights but also to criticize the situation. Thanks to the influence of liberation theology, the church gave priority to the intellectual progress of the working classes, developing one of the largest operations of non-governmental popular education in the contemporary era, which - to cite Antonio Gramsci - provided an opportunity for the "subaltern classes who want to educate themselves in the art of government".

Author : Enrique Dussel
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802821316

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A History of the Church in Latin America by Enrique Dussel Pdf

This comprehensive history of the church in Latin America, with its emphasis on theology, will help historians and theologians to better understand the formation and continuity of the Latin American tradition.

Author : Paul H. Lewis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742537390

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Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America by Paul H. Lewis Pdf

This thoughtful text describes how Latin America's authoritarian culture has been and continues to be reflected in a variety of governments, from the near-anarchy of the early regional bosses (caudillos), to all-powerful personalistic dictators or oligarchic machines, to contemporary mass-movement regimes like Castro's Cuba or Peron's Argentina. Taking a student-friendly chronological approach, Paul Lewis also analyzes how the internal dynamics of each historical phase of the region's development led to the next. He describes how dominant ideologies of the period were used to shape, and justify, each regime's power structure. Balanced yet cautious about the future of democracy in the region, this accessible book will be invaluable for courses on contemporary Latin America.

Author : Daniel H. Levine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400854585

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Religion and Politics in Latin America by Daniel H. Levine Pdf

This book explores the transformations in religion in conjunction with political change. Professor Levine suggests, highlights the dynamic and dialectical interaction between religion and politics in general, and addresses the more universal problem of relating thought to action. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Daniel H. Levine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 1588268527

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Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America by Daniel H. Levine Pdf

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.