Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780883442777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Frei, Montalva, Eduardo, Pres. Chile Latin America, the Hopeful Option
Author: Latin America, the Hopeful Option
Author: Eduardo Frei MontalvaPublisher: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
President Eduardo Frei's Second "State of the Nation" Address
Author: Chile. President (1964-1970 : Frei Montalva)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Religion and Politics in Latin America
Author: Edward A. LynchPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
What drives religious people to act in politics? In Latin America, as in the Middle East, religious belief is a primary motivating factor for politically active citizens. Edward Lynch questions the frequent pitfall of Latin American scholarship--categorizing religious belief as a veil for another interest or as a purview just of churchmen, thereby ignoring its hold over lay people. Challenging this traditional view, Lynch concludes that religious motivations are important in their own right and raises important questions about the relationship between religion and politics in Latin America. Looking at the two most important Catholic lay movements, Liberation Theology and Christian Democracy, Lynch uses Nicaragua and Venezuela as case studies of how religious philosophy has fared when vested with political power. This timely study describes the motivations driving many important political actors. Divided into two parts, Ideologies In Theory and Ideologies In Practice, this volume features a discussion of the theoretical background of two Catholic philosophies. Using Nicaragua and Venezuela as case studies, Lynch finds that Liberation Theology and Christian Democracy are not as different as many scholars think; in fact, there are many parellels. He concludes that both philosophies face their strongest challenge from a revitalized orthodox Catholic social doctrine.
Latin America's Christian Democratic Parties
Author: Edward A. LynchPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This work provides a comprehensive examination of Christian Democracy in Latin America from its nineteenth-century origins to the events of the 1990s. Lynch treats the record of Christian Democratic parties in the most crucial areas of economic concern in Latin America: chapters on land reform, nationalization, and the emergence of free market capitalism point up the relationship between politics and economics. Lynch concludes that had Latin America's Christian Democrats followed their own policy prescriptions, both they and Latin America would be better off. Instead, Christian Democrats abandoned their roots in Catholic social thought, embraced statism, and left their countries completely unprepared for the upsurge in liberal economic reform that swept Latin America in the 1980s. This work provides a comprehensive examination of Christian Democracy in Latin America from its nineteenth-century origins to the events of the 1990s. The author treats the record of Christian Democratic parties in the most crucial areas of economic concern in Latin America: chapters on land reform, nationalization, and the emergence of free market capitalism point up the relationship between politics and economics. Lynch concludes that had Latin America's Christian Democrats followed their own policy prescriptions, both they and Latin America would be better off. Instead, Christian Democrats abandoned their roots in Catholic social thought, embraced statism, and left their countries completely unprepared for the upsurge in liberal economic reform that swept Latin America in the 1980s. This work will be of interest to scholars and students in Latin American studies, Third World studies, political economy, comparative politics, and religion and politics.
National Union Catalog
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ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Catalog of the Peace Collection
Author: Swarthmore College. Peace CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Peace
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Bibliographic Guide to Latin American Studies
Author: The Gathering Storm
Author: Sebastián Hurtado-TorresPublisher:
ISBN: 9781501747182
Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A new interpretation of the involvement of the United States in Chilean politics in the years of Eduardo Frei's Revolution in Liberty"--