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The Latin American Church

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Ken Medhurst
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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , November 1985 , pp. 419 - 432
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1 Cf. Mecham, J. Lloyd. Church and State in Latin America (rev. ed. Chapel, Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1966).Google Scholar

2 On the subject of the Church and Christian Democracy, cf. Wayland-Smith, Giles, The Christian Democratic Party in Chile (Cuernavaca, Centro Intercultural de Documentación, 1969)Google Scholar and Williams, Edward J., Latin American Christian Democractic Parties (Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1967).Google Scholar On the Church as a pressure group, cf.Behrman, Lucy C., ‘The Political and Social Impact of the Peoples' Priests in Chile’, in Donald, E. Smith (ed.), Religion and Political Modernization (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1974).Google ScholarGrayson, George W., ‘The Church and Military in Peru’, in Smith, Donald E., op. cit.;Google ScholarSanders, Thomas G., ‘Catholic Innovation in a Changing Latin America (Cuernavaca, Centro Intercultural de Documentación, 1970);Google ScholarCarlos, Astiz, ‘The Catholic Church Latin American Politics: a Case Study of Peru’, in David H., Pollock and Arch, Ritter, (eds.), What Kind of Revolutions? (New York, Praeger, 1973);Google ScholarEmanuel de, Kadt, Catholic Radicals in Brazil (London, Oxford University Press, 1970).Google Scholar Examples of élite studies are Frederick C., Turner, Catholicism and Political Development in Latin America (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1971);Google ScholarHubert, Schwan and Antonio, Ugalde ‘Orientations of the Bishops of Colombia to Social Development, 1930–;1970’, Journal of Church & State Vol. 16, no. 3 (1974), pp. 473–92.Google Scholar For the Church from an organisational viewpoint, cf.Einaudi, Luigi et al. Latin American Institutional Development: The Changing Catholic Church (Santa Monica, The Rand Corporation, 1969)Google ScholarDavid, E. Mutchler, The Church as a Political Factor in Latin America: With Particular Reference to Colombia and Chile (New York, Praeger, 1971).Google Scholar

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