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Catholicism and political development in Latin America

Title: Catholicism and political development in Latin America / by Frederick C. Turner.
Author: Turner, Frederick C.
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1971]

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Description

xv, 272 pages; 24 cm

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 255-259.

Contents

1. Politics and progressive Catholicism -- Catholicism and development -- The progressive orientation -- Justifying change -- Patterns of political action -- Catholic diversity -- 2. The reorientation of Catholic goals -- Economic orientations -- The rejection of paternalism -- Education for "consciousness" -- Birth control -- The changing issue of church and state -- 3. Tradition and reaction within the church -- Traditionalist viewpoints -- Attitudes towards dictatorship -- Opposition to communism -- 4. Catholic revolutionaries: Radicals of avant-garde? -- The acceptance of violent revolution -- Communism and the Catholic left -- Anti-americanism and the exogenous church -- Reorganization in the church -- 5. The origins of future activist Catholicism -- Social and economic adaptation -- Papal pronouncements: ambiguity and reinforcement -- Church power and the fear of change -- 6. Some implications of the new Catholicism.

ISBN

0807811645
9780807811641

LCCN

78123100

OCLC

ocm00149068
149068
SCSB-122552

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library