The history of the Catholic Church in Latin America : from conquest to revolution and beyond /
"One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism has been predominant in Latin America and it has played a definitive role in its development. It helped to spur the conquest of the New World with its emphasis on missions to...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Religious origins of Catholicism in Latin America
- Spain and Portugal in the New World
- Conquest, spiritual and otherwise
- The colonial church
- Reform and enlightenment
- The church and clergy at independence
- Working out the differences
- The established order and the threat of popular religion
- Revolution and reform
- The mid-twentieth-century church
- The decline of liberation theology.