The Church, Society, and Hegemony: A Critical Sociology of Religion in Latin America

by Richard A. Young and Carlos Alberto Torres

This book provides a critical sociology of religion in Latin America. Its purpose is to discuss the notion of religion as part of social, cultural, and political processes in capitalist societies, drawing on the classics of sociological thought (Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Gramsci). Thus, churches are analyzed as organized institutions of religious mediation intimately linked to the production of social, cultural, and political hegemony in Latin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275937739
• ISBN13: 9780275937737
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"