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Subject(s)

• Church and state—Catholic Church—History—20th century [Browse]
• Church and state—Latin America—History—20th century [Browse]
• Latin America—Church history—20th century [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Latin America—History—1965-. [Browse]

Summary note

For most of its history, the Latin American Catholic Church has been considered a pillar of conservatism. This image changed dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s, when bishops in countries such as Brazil, Chile, and El Salvador publicly denounced repressive dictatorial regimes in their respective countries. Observers rushed to understand both the causes and consequences of this phenomenon, while unfortunately ignoring the persistence of Catholic support for authoritarianism in Argentina, Honduras, and Uruguay. In Rendering unto Caesar, Anthony Gill offers an answer to the question of why Catholic leaders in some countries came to oppose dictatorial rule but, equally important, why many did not.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-258) and index.

Contents

• Introduction : Caesar and the church
• A brief history of church-state relations in Latin America
• An economic model of church-state relations
• Luther's shadow : Protestant competition and the Catholic response
• Chile : a preferential option for the poor
• Argentina : complicity with the devil
• The institutional limits of Catholic progressivism.

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ISBN

• 0226293831 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 9780226293837 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 0226293858 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 9780226293851 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

97019432

OCLC

36824865

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