Paul Christopher Manuel is professor of political science at Mount Saint Mary’s University.Alynna J. Lyon is associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire.Clyde Wilcox is professor of government at Georgetown University.

• Foreword. A Tale of Two Statuesby Thomas Massaro, SJ, and Kenneth R. Himes, OFMPart One. Theoretical, Historical, and Cultural IssuesChapter One. Religion and Politics in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Three Theoretical Slicesby Paul Christopher Manuel, Alynna J. Lyon, and Clyde WilcoxChapter Two. Patterns of Settlement and Religious Imperial Agents in the Portuguese Empireby José Damião RodriguesChapter Three. Portugal and the Building of an Imaginary Empireby Susana Goulart CostaChapter Four. India's Luso-Africans: The Politics of Culture, Race, Colonialism, and Gender in Early Modern Portugal and Post-Colonial Goaby Bindu MalieckalPart Two. Societies Dominated by a Single Religious TraditionChapter 5. The Activist Catholic Church in Independent East Timor: "The Church is Not a Political Institution"by Alynna J. LyonChapter Six. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Portugal: Devotion, Democracy, and the Marian Apparitions at Fátimaby Paul Christopher ManuelPart Three. Competing Religious Societies, with a Formerly Dominant ChurchChapter Seven. Faith-State Relations in Brazil: What Does Religious Competition Mean for Democracy?by Christine A. GustafsonChapter Eight. The "Depoliticizing Machine": Church and State in Angola since Independenceby Didier PéclardPart Four. Societies with Marked Religious Diversity, without a Dominant ChurchChapter Nine. A Special Place: Imagining Goa from the Estado da India to Indian Independenceby Matthew N. SchmalzChapter Ten. The Catholic Church in Mozambique under Revolution, War, and Democracyby Eric Morier-Genoud and Pierre AnouilhChapter Eleven. Conclusion: Between Land and Sea: Portugal's Two Nationalisms in the Twenty-first Centuryby José Pedro Zúquete

Theoretically sophisticated and methodologically eclectic, this collection is a pleasure to read. The contributors have provided a marvelous account of an unlikely imperial power, as well as nuanced analyses of the multiple political and religious legacies of the Portuguese colonial experience.