1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Latin America
Chapter 1. Introduction: Framework for the analysis of religion and politics in Latin America
Dennis P. Petri
Part I. Political perspectives of Latin American worldviews
Chapter 2. The survival and reinvention of pre-Columbian forms of spirituality
Cristina Gutiérrez-Zúñiga
Chapter 3. The geopolitics of the Catholic Church in Latin America
Andrés Rivarola Puntigliano
Chapter 4. Evangelicals and politics
Jose Luis Perez Guadalupe and Oscar Amat y Leon
Chapter 5. Liberation theology
Alfredo Ignacio Poggi
Chapter 6. Jews, Jewish Identity, and Politics in Latin America
Ariel J. Liberman
Chapter 7. Mexican Necro-State: The Political Economy of Santa
Muerte R. Andrew Chesnut
Chapter 8. The kaleidoscope of reconfigurations between religions and public spaces in Latin America
Renée de la Torre and Pablo Semán
Part II. Religion and the public sphere
Chapter 9. Religion(s) and State Formation in Latin America
Mónica Ulloa-Gómez
Chapter 10. Colonial influence on Church-State relations
Mariana Guadalupe Molina Fuentes
Chapter 11. Towards a typology of Latin American secularisms: public tensions and transitions between religion, society and politics.
Felipe Gaytán Alcalá
Chapter 12. Christian Democracy
José Rojas Alvarado
Chapter 13. Contemporary Religious Political Parties in Latin America
Taylor C. Boas and Guillermo Flores Borda
Chapter 14. Power and Evangelicals in Latin America: Between Faith and Politics?
César Zúñiga Ramírez
Part III. Dimensions of religious freedom
Chapter 15. Government Religion Policy and Religious Freedom in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1990 and 2023
Jonathan Fox, Dennis P. Petri & Ariel Zellman
Chapter 16. Determinants of Religious Freedom Expansion in Latin America: A Comparative Policy Perspective
Camila Sanchez-Sandoval
Chapter 17. Secular Shifts on the Ground
Abraham Hawley-Suárez
Chapter 18. Religious Freedom in Indigenous Communities: A Legal-Political Analysis
Núria Reguart-Segarra
Chapter 19. The right to FoRB and Afro-Diasporic Religions in Latin America
Manoela Carpenedo
Chapter 20. Beyond the State: Non-State Restrictions on Religious Freedom in Latin America
Dennis P. Petri
Chapter 21. Religious Communities Amid Violence: Social role and Vulnerability factors
Teresa I. Flores Chiscul
Chapter 22. Religious freedom in the Inter-American Human Rights System
Trilce Gabriela Valdivia Aguilar
Chapter 23. Measuring Subnational Variation in Freedom of Religion or Belief Violations: Reflections on a Path Forward
Jason Klocek & Dennis P. Petri
Part IV. Religion and quality of democracy
Chapter 24. Religion and authoritarianism
Luis Felipe Mantilla
Chapter 25. The Role of the Catholic Church in Democratic Transitions
David E. Dixon
Chapter 26. North-South ecumenical networks of humanitarian activism in Latin America (1960-1990): from the sacred foundation of human rights to a new form of transnational citizenship
María Soledad Catoggio
Chapter 27. Understanding Places of Worship in Relation to Urban Regulations and Public Policies
John Fredy Osorio
Chapter 28. Conservative Moral Activism: The Fight Against Gender Ideology
Juan Marco Vaggione
Chapter 29. Religion, populism and foreign policy in Latin America
Stephan Fouquet
Chapter 30. The role of religion in parliaments in Latin America
Mónica Montaño Reyes
Chapter 31. Legislators’ Religiosity and Same-Sex Marriage in Latin America
Valentina Gonzalez-Rostani and Scott Morgenstern
Chapter 32. Religious Diplomacy in Latin America: Tradition, Emerging Actors, and New Issues
Marcela A. Bordón Lugo
Part V. Religious civic engagement and development
Chapter 33. Religion and Local Development: Jesuit schools in Latin America
Georgina M Gómez
Chapter 34. The role of urban planning in protecting religious freedom
Juan José Guardia
Chapter 35. Faith-based collective action
Christopher W. Hale
Chapter 36. Religion and Peacebuilding: The Mexican Case
Yves Solís & Yearim Ortiz
Part VI. Case studies
Chapter 37. The good God and the evil Evo: Religious-political performance and polarization in the 2019 crisis in Bolivia
Arnhild Leer-Helgesen & Heydi Tatiana Galarza
Chapter 38. Religious conflicts in Brazil: historical experiences and current challenges
Fábio Carvalho Leite
Chapter 39. The Role of the Catholic Church in Colombia in Areas of Armed Violence
José Darío Rodríguez Cuadros
Chapter 40. Costa Rica: From Catholic to Evangelical Influence in Politics?
José Andrés Díaz-González
Chapter 41. Between Constitutional Promise and Bureaucratic Repression: Religion and the State in Cuba
Dennis P. Petri & Teresa Flores
Chapter 42. Religion and Politics in Mexico. The history of a complex and always difficult relationship.
Javier Saldaña Serrano
Chapter 43. From Somoza to Ortega: The Catholic Church as a democratizing force in Nicaragua
Sergio M. Cabrales
Chapter 44. The interaction between the State and the Church in Venezuela
Mercedes Duarte Alvarado
Biography
Dennis P. Petri is a political scientist, researcher, and international consultant, with extensive experience in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He has worked in academic and policy roles for various universities, international NGOs, and multilateral organizations. Currently, Petri is the Head of the Chair of Humanities and Professor in International Relations at the Latin American University of Science and Technology of Costa Rica. He lectures regularly at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-UNESCO) and The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Petri also holds the position of International Director at the International Institute for Religious Freedom and is the Executive Director of the Foundation Platform for Social Transformation and the founder and scholar-at-large of the Observatory of Religious Freedom in Latin America. He earned his PhD in Political Philosophy from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. As a Mexican-Dutch-Costa Rican author, Petri has published extensively on freedom of religion, religion and politics, social dialogue, parliamentary reform, and democracy assistance.
