Religious Politics in Latin America, Pentecostal vs. Catholic

by Brian H. Smith

Book Overview

Brian H. Smith's book surveys recent religious and political developments in Latin American Christianity, especially in the rapidly growing Pentecostal churches and in Catholicism. He finds that despite efforts by the Vatican to make the Latin American Church less involved in politics (in the wake of liberation theology) by the papal appointment of a whole new generation of conservative bishops since 1980, Catholicism is still very much a political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268016623
• ISBN13: 9780268016623
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.4"