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Routledge
This is Volume 3 of 7 of the Essays on Mexico, Central and South America collection covering scholarly debates from the 1950s to the 1990s. This volumes focuses on the dramatic changes in Roman Catholic church in Latin America during the 1960s as part of a response of Roman Catholicism worldwide to the Second Vatican Council.
Introduction; Church “Development” in Latin America: A Five-Country Comparison; Notes for a Theology of Liberation; Latin American Liberation Theology; Religion and Social Change: Classical Theories and New Formulations in the Context of Recent Developments in Latin America; Catholicism and Society in Twentieth-Century Brazil; Liberation Ecclesiology: Praxis, Theory, Praxis; Authority in Church and Society: Latin American Models; Corporatist Theory and Ideology: A Latin American Development Paradigm; Protestantism and Capitalism Revisited, in the Rural Highlands of Ecuador; Grassroots Organizations, Trade Unions, and the Church: A Challenge to the Controlled Abertura in Brazil, Continuities in Colombia; The Church, Social Consciousness, and Protest? Patterns of Church Influence in Brazil’s Political Transition; Church Base Communities and Democratic Change in Brazilian Society; Acknowledgments.
Biography
Jorge I Dominguez, Harvard University
