Rendering unto Caesar [electronic resource] : the Catholic Church and the state in Latin America / Anthony Gill.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 269 p.) : illISBN: - 0226294056 (electronic bk.)
- 9780226294056 (electronic bk.)
- Catholic Church -- Latin America -- History -- 1965-
- Church and state -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century
- Church and state -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- RELIGION -- Christianity -- General
- RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues
- Electronic books
- Latin America -- Church history -- 20th century
- ეკლესია და სახელმწიფო კათოლიკური ეკლესია კათოლიკური ეკლესიის ისტორია
- 261.7/098 21
- BR660 .G55 1998eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-258) and index.
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 -- Postscript -- Appendix: Rationality and Religion.
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.
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