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Rendering unto Caesar : the Catholic Church and the state in Latin America / Anthony Gill.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 269 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0226294056
  • 9780226294056
  • 9780226293851
  • 0226293858
  • 0226293831
  • 9780226293837
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rendering unto Caesar.DDC classification:
  • 261.7/098 21
LOC classification:
  • BR660 .G55 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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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