Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America

Description

The Roman Catholic Church in Latin America faces significant and unprecedented challenges. Most prominent among them are secularization, globalizing cultural trends, intensifying religious competition, and pluralism of many kinds within what were once hegemonic Catholic societies. The substantial and original essays in this volume assess the ways in which the Catholic Church in Latin America is dealing with these political, religious, and social changes. Most importantly, they explore how democracy has changed the Catholic Church and, in turn, how religious changes have influenced democratic politics in Latin America.

Drawing on the experiences of several countries to illustrate broad themes and explain divergent religious responses to common challenges, the contributors advance the notion that the Catholic Church's effectiveness in the public sphere and even its long-term viability as a religious institution depend on the nature and extent of the relationship between the hierarchy and the faithful. The essays address the context of pluralist challenges, the ideational, institutional, and policy responses of the Catholic hierarchy, and the nature of both religious beliefs and democratic values at the individual level in Latin America today.

Contributors: Frances Hagopian, Ronald Inglehart, Soledad Loaeza, Cristián Parker Gumucio, Patricia M. Rodríguez, Roberto J. Blancarte, Mala Htun, Catalina Romero, and Daniel H. Levine.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Political Ideologies
• HISTORY
• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Histoire
• Catholic Church hierarchy
• Catholic Church
• General officer
• Latin America
• Catholic
• Christianity
• General
• Democracy

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 15 mai 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268081614
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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The University of Notre Dame Press gratefully thanks the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies for its support in the publication of titles in this series.

Katherine Hite and Paola Cesarini, eds. Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe(2004)

Robert S. Pelton, C.S.C., ed. Monsignor Romero: A Bishop for the Third Millennium(2004)

Guillermo O’Donnell, Jorge Vargas Cullell, and Osvaldo M. Iazzetta, eds. The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications(2004)

Arie M. Kacowicz The Impact of Norms in International Society: The Latin American Experience, 1881–2001 (2005)

Roberto DaMatta and Elena Soárez Eagles, Donkeys, and Butterflies: An Anthropological Study of Brazil’s “Animal Game”(2006)

Kenneth P. Serbin Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil’s Clergy and Seminaries(2006)

Christopher Welna and Gustavo Gallón, eds. Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights in Colombia(2007)

Guillermo O’Donnell Dissonances: Democratic Critiques of Democracy(2007)

Marifel Pérez-Stable, ed. Looking Forward: Comparative Perspectives on Cuba’s Transition(2007)

Jodi S. Finkel Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s(2008)

Robert R. Wilson, Peter M. Ward, Peter K. Spink, and Victoria E. Rodríguez Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA(2008)

Brian S. McBeth Dictatorship and Politics: Intrigue, Betrayal, and Survival in Venezuela, 1908–1935(2008)

Pablo Policzer The Rise and Fall of Reperssion in Chile(2009)

For a complete list of titles from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, see http: //www.undpress.nd.edu

Religious Pluralism,

Democracy,

and theCatholic Church

inLatin America

edited by

F R A N C E S H A G O P I A N

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Religious pluralism, democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America / edited by Frances Hagopian. p.cm. — (From the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies) Based on a conference held Mar. –Apr. ,  at the University of Notre Dame. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN ---- (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-268-08161-4 (web pdf) .Catholic Church—Latin America—Congresses. . Religious pluralism—Latin America—Congresses. . Democracy—Latin America—Congresses. . Religious pluralism—Catholic Church—Congresses. . Democracy—Religious aspects— Catholic Church—Congresses. . Latin America—Church history. I. Hagopian, Frances. BX..R  '.—dc 

For Suzanne Berger,

My teacher, who taught me how to teach

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List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Acronyms Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: The New Landscape Frances Hagopian

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P A R T I Pluralist Challenges to the Contemporary Catholic Church in Latin America: Institutions and Beliefs in a Context of Religious and Social Change

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Cultural Change, Religion, Subjective Well-Being, and Democracy in Latin America Ronald Inglehart

Cultural Change in Mexico at the Turn of the Century: The Secularization of Women’s Identity and the Erosion of the Authority of the Catholic Church Soledad Loaeza

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Education and Increasing Religious Pluralism in Latin America: The Case of Chile Cristián Parker Gumucio

P A R T I I Church Responses to Democratic and Religious Pluralism

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With or Without the People: The Catholic Church and Land-Related Conicts in Brazil and Chile Patricia M. Rodriguez

The Changing Face of Religion in the Democratization of Mexico: The Case of Catholicism Roberto J. Blancarte

Social Justice, Moral Values, or Institutional Interests? Church Responses to the Democratic Challenge in Latin America Frances Hagopian

P A R T I I I The Church, Public Policy, and Democracy

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Life, Liberty, and Family Values: Church and State in the Struggle over Latin America’s Social Agenda Mala Htun

Religion and Public Spaces: Catholicism and Civil Society in Peru Catalina Romero

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P A R T I V Conclusions: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

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Pluralism as Challenge and Opportunity Daniel H. Levine

The Catholic Church in a Plural Latin America: Toward a New Research Agenda Frances Hagopian

About the Contributors

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