... aspect. The chapters by Mary Roldán and Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens are similarly transnational in their examinations of church-led approaches to poverty, development, and liberation. In Colombia and Guatemala, respectively, missionaries collaborated and clashed with state actors, impoverished communities...

...Alexander Marchant How the Church Grows in Brazil. A Study of the Economic and Social Basis of the Evangelical Church in Brazil . By Davis J. Merle . ( New York, London : Department of Social and Economic Research and Counsel, International Missionary Council , 1943 . Pp. 167...

...Alexander Marchant The Evangelical Church in the River Plate Republics (Argentina and Uruguay). A Study of the Economic and Social Basis of the Evangelical Church in Argentina and Uruguay . By Davis J. Merle . ( New York, London : Department of Social and Economic Research and Counsel...

...Ralph della Cava Latin American Church Growth . By Read William R. . Grand Rapids , 1969 . William B . Eerdmans Publishing Company. Church Growth Series . Charts. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxiv , 421 . $8.95 . Social Justice and the Latin Churches. Church...

...Harvey Cox The underlying thesis of Richard’s book is that Christianity in Latin America can best be understood by a methodology that addresses the changing relationship between the church, the state, and the civil society. As a theologian, he obviously wants to reject any kind of alliance...

...Samuel Shapiro The rest of his book, as with most of the Knopf series, is a collection of articles. Three deal with 19th century Church-State questions in Peru, Mexico, and Brazil. Five more, among them Camilo Torres’s call to revolution in Colombia, Archbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara’s claim...

...Michael P. Costeloe Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 In the past 20 years, much scholarly effort has gone into unraveling the mysteries of church wealth in Mexico. Most of the books and articles have concentrated on the nineteenth century, the end of a historical cycle in which...

...Alicia L. Monroe Abstract This essay examines a conflict between the Brotherhood of Saint Efigênia and Saint Elesbão of Black Men and the Diocese of São Paulo over access to the Church of Saint Efigênia, which led to ecclesial proceedings and the brotherhood's unprecedented dissolution. The dispute...

...Todd A. Diacon This is the story of Brazil’s “Bipartite Commission,” which met secretly between 1970 and 1974, during the height of military rule in the country. The Commission, over the course of some 24 meetings, brought together military officials and Catholic Church leaders. The purpose...

... missionaries was to diminish the importance of the Catholic Church and other traditional institutions by encouraging religious freedom and introducing modern forms of thought and association. However, there turned out to be very little danger to the Brazilian status quo. Protestants were few in number...

...Frederick Turner The Uncertain Alliance: The Catholic Church and Labor in Latin America . By Floridi Alexis U. and Stiefbold Annette E. . Coral Gables, Florida , 1973 . Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami . Table. Appendix. Index . Pp. vii , 108...

...Margaret Todaro Williams The Political Transformation of the Brazilian Catholic Church . By Bruneau Thomas C. . New York , 1974 . Cambridge University Press . Map. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xiv , 270 . Cloth . $16.50 . Copyright 1975 by Duke University...

...J. Lloyd Mecham A History of The Church in Venezuela, 1810-1930 . By Watters Mary . ( Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1933 . Pp. ix , 260 .) Copyright 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 ...

...W. H. Callicott Church and State in Latin America. A History of Politico-Ecclesiastical Relations . By Mecham J. Lloyd . ( Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1934 . Pp. xii , 550 . Index. Bibliography, $4.50 .) Copyright 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 ...

...William C. Binkley Copyright 1927 by Duke University Press 1927 Church and State in Mexico, 1822-57 . By Callcott Wilfrid Hardy . ( Durham : Duke University Press , 1926 . Pp. 357 .) ...

...Alan K. Manchester The Church and Freemasonry in Brazil, 1872-1875: A Study in Regalism . By Crescentia Thornton Sister Mary . [ The Catholic University of America .] ( Washington, D. C. : The Catholic University of America Press , 1948 . Pp. viii , 287 . Paper.) Copyright 1949...

...Woodrow Borah Alienation of Church Wealth in Mexico: Social and Economic Aspects of the Liberal Revolution, 1856-1875 . By Bazant Jan . Edited and Translated by Costeloe Michael P. . London , 1971 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge Latin American Studies, 11 . Tables...