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The Church and Politics in Chile : Challenges to Modern Catholicism.

Clarifying the growing role of the Latin American Catholic Church as an agent of social change, Brian H. Smith discusses the prophetic function of the Chilean Church during the country's metamorphosis from Conservative to Christian Democratic to Marxist to repressive military regime. Originally...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Brian H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Part I: Ideological and Institutional Dynamics of the Roman Catholic Church; 1. Changes and Challenges in Post-Vatican II Catholicism; Part II: The Church and Socioeconomic Reform; Part III : Christian-Marxist Rapprochement; Part IV: The Prophetic Role of the Church Under Authoritarianism; Index.