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José Casanova · 1994
A sociological analysis of religion's public role in the modern world, examining how religious movements and institutions have re-entered the political and moral sphere through case studies of Spain, Poland, Brazil, evangelical Protestantism, and American Catholicism.
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What this book knows
Religion has not privatized in modernity; it repeatedly re-enters public life as a legitimate political and moral voice.
faith-and-doubt
Gutierrez turned the proletariat into the biblical los pobres; 'the eruption of the poor in history' became central to his eschatological theology.
PRMW-RC-004obedience-and-authority
The extreme right shouted 'Tarancon al paredon' — the church's dissociation from Franco's regime could not have been more dramatically captured.
PRMW-RC-090Brazilian bishops concluded that 'pretended patronage' had been 'state oppression' that had almost destroyed the church across four centuries.
PRMW-RC-122Polish Catholicism's transformation marks passage from defending corporate church interests to defending civil society's rights against totalitarian state intervention.
PRMW-RC-235belonging
By the mid-1950s Protestant-Catholic-Jew had become three denominational forms of a new American civil religion with the Protestant ethic at its core.
PRMW-RC-153Fundamentalists have set shop in the public square and many plan to stay, establishing more religious lobbies than liberal competitors throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
PRMW-RC-172Illuminates
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