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Politics and the Catholic church in Nicaragua

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Kirk sets each stage of the church-state debate in a historical continuum, then examines the forty-year period of Somocismo and the Sandinista period (1979-90) that followed. This social revolution - blending nationalism, Marxism, and Catholicism - dared to be different, he claims, and accordingly it paid the price.
Kirk wrote this book following three trips to Nicaragua during the 1980s, when he witnessed firsthand the social polarization occurring at the time. But the involvement of the Catholic Church in Nicaraguan politics is not exceptional, he says: "Most - if not all - religions are also encumbered with socio-political concerns that go beyond the essentially 'religious.'"

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282.09 KIR p

Z. HANDIMAN

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282.09 KIR p

Publisher

Florida : University Press., 1992

Collation

xiii, 246p.; 24 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-8130-1138-8

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282.09

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Subject(s)

CATHOLIC CHURCH - HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

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