Struggle for the Spirit

by David Lehman and David Lehmann

For 500 years Catholicism has been the dominant religious force throughout Latin America. Its hegemony was based on a complex relationship with popular culture; the colorful and the macabre, the syncretic and the purist, the indigenous and the cosmopolitan, the popular and the erudite have combined to form a uniquely creative and reflexive cultural complex.

But in the second half of the twentieth century, just as the Church sought to reform...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745617840
• ISBN13: 9780745617848
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"