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Online-Ressource (286 p.)
ISBN:
9780226293837
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Nowhere has the relationship between state and church been more volatile in recent decades than in Latin America. Anthony Gill's controversial book not only explains why Catholic leaders in some countries came to oppose dictatorial rule but, equally important, why many did not. Using historical and statistical evidence from twelve countries, Gill for the first time uncovers the causal connection between religious competition and the rise of progressive Catholicism. In places where evangelical Protestantism and "spiritist" sects made inroads among poor Catholics, Church leaders championed the r
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RENDERING UNTO CAESAR; Contents; Acknowledgments; ONE Introduction: Caesar and the Church; TWO A Brief History of Church-State Relations in Latin America; THREE An Economic Model of Church-State Relations; FOUR Luther's Shadow: Protestant Competition and the Catholic Response; FIVE Chile: A Preferential Option for the Poor; SIX Argentina: Complicity with the Devil; SEVEN The Institutional Limits of Catholic Progressivism; Postscript; Appendix: Rationality and Religion; Notes; References; Index;
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ISBN 9780226294056
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ISBN 9780226293837
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rendering unto Caesar : The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America
Sprache:
Englisch
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