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Crossing swords : politics and religion in Mexico /
Based on a decade of field research, this work is the first book-length, scholarly examination in English of the role of Catholicism in Mexican society since the 1970s through 1995, and the increasing political activism of the Catholic church and clergy. It is also the first analysis of church-state...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Based on a decade of field research, this work is the first book-length, scholarly examination in English of the role of Catholicism in Mexican society since the 1970s through 1995, and the increasing political activism of the Catholic church and clergy. It is also the first analysis of church-state relations in Latin America that incorporates detailed interviews of numerous bishops and clergy and leading politicians about how they see each other and how religion influences their values. It is also the first analysis of the Mexican Catholic Church which uses national survey research to examine. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195355352 0195355350 1280535008 9781280535000 |