Add to ORKGIn this paper, we seek to draw lessons about the roles that religious institutions can play in promoting democracy in deeply divided societies by examining the experience of the Catholic Church in Latin America. We focus on the cases of Chile and El Salvador, two countries where the Catholic Church played a decisive role in advancing democracy after autocratic military rule. These two cases illustrate where theology and action productively promoted social change in highly conflictual societies. We note challenges to democracy in the region, but also new opportunities in the era of the first Latin American pope, Francis
Theorising the relationship between the Church and democracy is at once an ancient and yet new propo...
In 2018, a wave of more than 2,000 mass protests in Nicaragua demanded democratization and the resig...
For many centuries the Catholic Church has been an influential contributor to social policy and a po...
In this paper, we seek to draw lessons about the roles that religious institutions can play in promo...
This article explores the conditions under which religious organizations push for democratization by...
Two phenomena have been ongoing in Central America over the past 30 years. The first has been a chan...
UnrestrictedLatin America's progressive church era during the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s provides ...
The decline of Catholic parties across Latin America appears as an interesting exception to the glob...
How does a history of participation in secular authoritarian regimes shape the trajectory of religio...
Democratic transitions recently became a topic of great discussion among political scholars as a dom...
This article conducts a historical review of the Church-State relationship in the United States to d...
(anglicky) The thesis will be addressed by comparing the states which have undergone a transition to...
What drives religious people to act in politics? In Latin America, as in the Middle East, religious ...
From the 1960s through the 1980s, Latin America's Catholic bishops' conferences diverged in their re...
To what extent has the growth of Evangelicalism in Latin America contributed to political participat...
Theorising the relationship between the Church and democracy is at once an ancient and yet new propo...
In 2018, a wave of more than 2,000 mass protests in Nicaragua demanded democratization and the resig...
For many centuries the Catholic Church has been an influential contributor to social policy and a po...
In this paper, we seek to draw lessons about the roles that religious institutions can play in promo...
This article explores the conditions under which religious organizations push for democratization by...
Two phenomena have been ongoing in Central America over the past 30 years. The first has been a chan...
UnrestrictedLatin America's progressive church era during the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s provides ...
The decline of Catholic parties across Latin America appears as an interesting exception to the glob...
How does a history of participation in secular authoritarian regimes shape the trajectory of religio...
Democratic transitions recently became a topic of great discussion among political scholars as a dom...
This article conducts a historical review of the Church-State relationship in the United States to d...
(anglicky) The thesis will be addressed by comparing the states which have undergone a transition to...
What drives religious people to act in politics? In Latin America, as in the Middle East, religious ...
From the 1960s through the 1980s, Latin America's Catholic bishops' conferences diverged in their re...
To what extent has the growth of Evangelicalism in Latin America contributed to political participat...
Theorising the relationship between the Church and democracy is at once an ancient and yet new propo...
In 2018, a wave of more than 2,000 mass protests in Nicaragua demanded democratization and the resig...
For many centuries the Catholic Church has been an influential contributor to social policy and a po...