Roman Catholic Church in Latin America

Jorge I Dominguez, Harvard University

• Introduction; Church “Development” in Latin America: A Five-Country Comparison; Notes for a Theology of Liberation; Latin American Liberation Theology; Religion and Social Change: Classical Theories and New Formulations in the Context of Recent Developments in Latin America; Catholicism and Society in Twentieth-Century Brazil; Liberation Ecclesiology: Praxis, Theory, Praxis; Authority in Church and Society: Latin American Models; Corporatist Theory and Ideology: A Latin American Development Paradigm; Protestantism and Capitalism Revisited, in the Rural Highlands of Ecuador; Grassroots Organizations, Trade Unions, and the Church: A Challenge to the Controlled Abertura in Brazil, Continuities in Colombia; The Church, Social Consciousness, and Protest? Patterns of Church Influence in Brazil’s Political Transition; Church Base Communities and Democratic Change in Brazilian Society; Acknowledgments.