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Latin American Perspectives on Religion and Politics

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Stephen D. Glazier
Stephen D. Glazier*
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University of Nebraska
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 1995 , pp. 247 - 255
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Copyright © 1995 by the University of Texas Press

References

1. For discussions of these and other thinkers, see Phillip Berryman, Liberation Theology (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1987); and Conflict and Competition: The Latin American Church in a Changing Environment, edited by Edward L. Cleary and Hannah Stewart-Gambino (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1992).

2. See Edward J. Williams, Latin American Christian Democratic Parties (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967).

3. Thomas W. Walker, The Christian Democratic Movement in Nicaragua (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1970).

4. See especially Daniel Schipani, Religious Education Encounters Liberation Theology (Birmingham, Ala.: Religious Education Press, 1988); and Alfred A. Hennelly, Theology for a Liberating Church: The New Praxis of Freedom (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1989).

5. See Elizabeth Schussler-Fiorenza, In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (New York: Crossroads, 1988). Schussler-Fiorenza expresses her vision of a “woman-church” as the baptismal call of all women to a discipleship of equals and a bonding in sisterhood for empowerment.

6. See Penny Lernoux, People of God: The Struggle for World Catholicism (New York: Viking, 1989).

7. See also John M. Kirk, Between God and the Party: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Cuba (Tampa: University of South Florida Press, 1989).

8. The role of Protestantism must also be considered. See David Stoll, Is Latin America Turning Protestant? (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990); and Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America, edited by Virginia Garrard Burnett and David Stoll (Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1993).