General Histories

J. Lloyd Mecham, Church and State in Latin America: A History of Politico-Ecclesiastical Relations (1966)

Various sections in: Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion,Encyclopedia of Mexico, and New Catholic Encyclopedia and its Supplements

Many volumes of Catholic and Protestant history have been published of individual countries or regions by the Commission for Studies of the History of the Church in Latin America (CEHILA) under the title: Historia General de la Iglesia en América Latina.

See chapters on Latin America in Kenneth Scott Latourette's Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, volumes III and IV.

Short Surveys of Latin American Religion

Margaret Crahan, "Religion: Reconstituting Church and Pursuing Change," in Alfred Stepan, ed., Americas: New Interpretative Essays (1992)

Peter Winn, "The Power and the Glory," Americas, The Changing Face of Latin America and the Caribbean (1992)

Mark Rosenberg, et al, "Miracles Are Not Enough," Americas: An Anthology (1992)

Contemporary History: Religion and Politics

General, emphasizing Catholic Church

Daniel H. Levine, Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism (1992)

Roberto Cipriani, et al., eds., Identidade e mudança na religiosidade latino-americana (2000)

Whole issue of Cristianismo y Sociedad 37, 4 (1999), “Instituciones religiosas: Desafíos en el
nuevo milenio”

Daniel H. Levine, "Religion, the Poor, and Politics in Latin America Today," in Levine, Religion and Political Conflict in Latin America (1986)

Berryman, Phillip, Religion in the Megacity (1996)

Berryman, Phillip, Stubborn Hope: Religion, Politics, and Revolution in Central America (1994)

Berryman, Phillip, The Religious Roots of Rebellion: Christians in Central American Revolutions (1984)

SALALM Secretariat, Religion in Latin America: Libraries Reacting to Social Change (SALALM
Secretariat, Benson Collection, University of Texas at Austin)

John Burdick and W.E. Hewitt, eds., The Church at Grassroots in Latin America

Christian Smith and Joshua Prokopy, eds., Latin American Religion in Motion (2000)

Virginia Garrard-Burnett, ed., On Earth as it is in Heaven: Religion in Modern Latin America

Daniel H. Levine, ed., Religion and Political Conflict in Latin America (1986)

Daniel H. Levine, ed., Churches and Politics in Latin America

Religious Anthropology

Manuel Marzal, Tierra Encantada (2002)

Protestants/Pentecostals (see separate page)

Brian H. Smith, Religious Politics in Latin America: Pentecostal vs. Catholic (1998)

Virgina Garrard-Burnett and David Stoll, Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America (1993)
 

Religious Liberty in Latin America

Ecumenism and Competition

CONIC and CLAI, Diversidade e comunhâo: Um convite ao ecumenismo (Sao Leopoldo: Editora
Sinodal and Sao Paulo: Paulinas, 1998)

Ari Pedo Oro, Avanço pentecostal e reaçâo católica (1996)

Emphasizing Change from Traditional to Contemporary Religion

Scott Mainwaring and Alexander Wilde, eds., The Progressive Church in Latin America (1989) 

Edward L. Cleary, ed., Born of the Poor: The Latin American Church since Medellín (1990)

Ivan Vallier, Catholicism, Social Control, and Modernization in Latin America (1970)

Marcos G, McGrath, Como vi y viví el Concilio y el Postconcilio: Testimonio de los Padres Conciliares de America Latina (Bogotá: Paulinas, 2000)
 
 

Emphasizing Military Period, 1964-1990

Jeffrey Klaiber, The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America (1998)

Globalization and Latin American Religion

Manuel Vasquez and Marie Marquardt, Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas (2003)

Anna Peterson and Manuel Vasquez, Christianity, Social Change, and Globalization in the Americas (2001)

Cristián Parker, Popular Religion and Modernization in Latin America (1996)

Transnational Character of Latin American Religion

Daniel H. Levine and David Stoll, "Bridging the Gap between Empowerment and Power," in Susanne Rudolph and James Piscatori, eds., Transnational Religion (1997)
 

Transnational Character of Latin American Religion

Edward L. Cleary and Timothy Steignega, eds., Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change

Political Parties

Scott Mainwaring and Timothy Scully, Christian Deomocracy in Latin America (2003)

Paul Freston, Protestant Political Parties: A Global Survey (2003)

Basic Christian Communities

W.E. Hewitt, Basic Christian Communities and Social Change in Brazil (1991)

Guillermo Cook, The Expectation of the Poor: Latin American Basic Ecclesial Communities in Protestant Perspective (1985)
 
 

Churches and Human Rights

Edward L. Cleary, "The Brazilian Catholic Church and Church-State Relations: Nation-Building," Journal of Church and State (1997), available at http://www.britannica.com/

Margaret Crahan, "Religion and Societal Change: The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America," in Carrie Gustafson and Peter Juliver, eds., Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims (1999)

Catholic Charismatic Renewal

Julia Miranda, Carisma, sociedade e política: Nova linguagems do religioso e do político (1999)

Steve Bruce, "The Charismatic Movement and Secularization Theory," Religion 28, 3 (Fall 1998), pp. 223-232

Popular Catholicism

Thomas Bamat and Jean-Paul Weist, eds., Popular Catholicism in a World Church (1999)

Rowan Ireland, “Popular Religions and the Building of Democracy in Latin America: Saving the
Toquevillian Parallel,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 41, 4 (Winter 1999),
pp. 111-136

Daniel H. Levine, Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism (1992)

Roberto Blancarte, “Religâo popular e poder político no México,” in Roberto Cipriani, et al.,
eds., Indentidade e mudança na religiosidade latino-americana (2000)

Non-Violence

Philip McManus and Gerald Schlabach, Relentless Persistence: Nonviolent Action in Latin America

Jean Gros and Hildegard Goss-Mayr, La no-violencia evangelica: Fuerza de liberación/Encuentro de obispos de América Latina (1978)

Relations of Latin America and U.S. Churches

Robert S. Pelton, From Power to Communion: Toward a New Way of Being Church Based on the Latin American Experience (1994)

Gerald Costello, Mission to Latin America: The Successes and Failures of a Twentieth- CenturyCrusade (1979)

Angelyn Dries, The Missionary Movement in American Catholic History (1998)
 
Susan Fitzpatrick Behrens, Of Divine Import: The Maryknoll Missionaries in Peru, 1943-2000, UC San Diego diss. (2001)

Country Studies

South America

Argentina

Michael A. Burdick, For God and the Fatherland: Religion and Politics in Argentina (1995)

Floreal H. Forni, Luis A. Cárdenas, and Fortunato Mallimaci, Guía de la diversidad religosa de Buenos Aires

Norberto Padilla, Religión, justicia y paz: La Argentina y el mundo

M. Cristina Liboreiro, er. al., 500 años de cristianismo en Argentina

Arthur F. Liebscher, "The Catholic Church in Argentine Society: Córdoba, 1883-1929." M.A. Thesis, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley (1986)

María J. Lubertino Bertrán, Perón y la iglesia (1987)

Domingo A. Bresci, Movimiento de sacerdotes para el Tercer Mundo: Documentos para la memoria histórica (1994)

Sebastián Politi, Teología del Pueblo: Una propuesta argentina a la teología latinoamericana 1967-1975 (1992)

Bolivia

Historical Context: Josep M. Barnadas, La iglesia católica in Bolivia (1976)

Jeffrey Klaiber, "Bolivia (1952-1989)," in The Church, Dictatorships

Jeffrey Klaiber, "The Catholic Church’s Role as Mediator: Bolivia, 1968-1989" Journal of Church and State 35, 2 (1993)

Brazil

Historical and Political Context: Thomas C. Bruneau, The Church in Brazil: The Politics of Religion (1982) and The Political Transformation of the Brazilian Church (1974) 

Manuel Vásquez, The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (1998)

John Burdick, Legacies of Liberation: The Progressive Catholic Church in Brazil

Roque Hammes, Ireja católica, sindicatos e movimentos sociais: quarenta anoa de historia

Cecília Loreto Mariz and Maria das Dores Campos Machado, “Mudanças recentes no campo
religioso brasileiro,” Antropólitica 5 (1998), pp. 21-44

David Lehmann, Struggle for the Spirit: Religious Transformation and Popular Culture in Brazil and Latin America (1996)

Kenneth Serbin, "The Catholic Church, Religious Pluralism, and Democracy in Brazil," in Peter Kingstone and Timothy Power, eds., Democratic Brazil (2000)

Kenneth Serbin, Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil (2000)

Julia Miranda, Carisma, sociedade e política: Nova linguagems do religioso e do político (1999)

Iain S. MacLean, Opting for Democracy: Liberation Theology and the Struggle for Democracy in Brazil

Rowan Ireland, " Pentecostalism, Conversion, and Politics in Brazil," in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, Power, Politics, and Pentecostals (1997)

Rowan Ireland, Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil (1991)

Antonio Flavio Pieucci and Reginaldo Prandi, A realidade social das religioes no Brasil: Religiôs, sociedade e politicia (1996)

John Burdick, Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil’s Arena (1993)

John Burdick, Blessed Antartica: Women, Race, and Popula Christianity in Brazil (1998)

Josè Oscar Beozzo, Igeja do Brasil: De Joâo XXIII a Joâo Paulo II de Medellín a Santo Domingo (1993)

Mev Puleo, The Struggle is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation (1994)

Cecília Loreto Mariz, Coping with Poverty: Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities (1994)

W. E. Hewitt, Basic Christian Communities and Social Change in Brazil (1991)

Madelaine Cousineau Adriance, Promised Land: Base Christian Communities and The Struggle for the Amazon (1995)

Binka Le Breton, A Land To Die For (1997)

Carol Ann Drogus, Women, Religion and Social Change in Brazil’s Popular Church (1997)

Phillip Berryman, Religion in the Megacity: Catholic and Protestant Portraits from Latin America (1996)

Chile

Cristian Parker, Globalization and Pluralization of the Religious Field in Chile, in Cristian Toloz and Eugemio Lehera, Chile in the Nineties (2000)

Historical and Political Context: Brian H. Smith, The Church and Politics in Chile: Challenges to Modern Catholicism (1982)

Michael Fleet and Brian H. Smith, The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru (1997) 

Hannah Stewart-Gambino, " Redefining the Changes and Politics in Chile" in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, eds., Conflict (1992)

Edward L. Cleary and Juan Sepúlveda, "Chilean Pentecostalism: Coming of Age," in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, Power (1997)

William Lies, "Counting Sheep: Religious Socialization, Competition, and Chilean Politics", Pittsburgh University diss. (2003)

Colombia

Historical and Political Context: Daniel H. Levine, Religion and Politics in Latin America: 

The Catholic Church in Colombia and Venezuela (1981)

Benjamín E. Haddox, Sociedad y Religión en Colombia (1965)

Paraguay

Jeffrey Klaiber, "Paraguay (1954-1989): The Longest Dictatorship," in Klaiber, The Church, Dictatorships (1998) 

Peru

Manuel Marzal, “Meio século de pesquisa religiosa no Peru,” in Roberto Cipriani, et al., eds., Identidade e mudança na religosidade latino-americana (2000)

María José Caram, “The Shape of Catholic Identity among the Aymara of Pilcuyo,” in Thomas Bamat and Jean-Paul Weist, eds., Popular Catholicism in a World Church (1999)

Historical and Political Context: Jeffrey Klaiber, The Catholic Church in Peru, 1821-1985: A Social History (1992)

Jeffrey Klaiber, "The Church in Peru: Between Terrrorism and Conservative Restraints," in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, eds., Conflict (1992)

Michael Fleet and Brian H. Smith, The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru (1997)

Philip J. Williams and Vilma Fuentes, "Catholic Responses to Everyday Life in Lima, Peru," Journal of Church and State (Winter 2000)

Uruguay

Jeffrey Klaiber, "Uruguay (1973-1990): A Long Silence and a Moral Referendum," The Church, Dictatorships (1998)

Venezuela

Historical and Political Context: Mary Watters, A History of the Church in Venezuela: 1810-1930 (1933)

Daniel H. Levine, Religion and Politics in Latin America:The Catholic Church in Colombia and Venezuela (1981)

David Smilde, "Venezuela," in Paul Sigmund, Religious Freedom and "Letting God Govern: Supernatural Agency in the Venezuelan Pentecostal Approach to Social Change," Sociology of Religion (Fall 1998)

Brian Froehle, "The Catholic Church and Politics in Venezuela: Resource Limitations, Religious Competition, and Democracy," In Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, Conflict (1992) and "Pentecostals and Evangelicals in Venezuela: Consolidating Gains, Moving in New Directions," in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, Power (1997)

Mexico and Central America

Mexico

Historical and Political Context: Roderic A. Camp, Crossing Swords (1997)

Osvaldo F. Pardo, The Origins of Mexican Catholicism: Nahua Rituals and Christian Sacraments

Roberto Blancante, Historia de la Iglesia Catolica in Mexico (1992)

Roberto Blancarte, ed., Religión, iglesias y democracia (1995)

Roberto Blancarte, El poder salinismo e iglesia católica, una nueva convivencia (1991)

Jean Meyer, "L'Eglise et l'etat mexicain au xx siècle," Etudes 3903 (March 1999)

Karl Schmitt, "Church and State in Mexico: A Corporatist Relationship," Américas 40 (1984)

Claude Pomerleau, "The Changing Church in Mexico and Its Challenge to the State," Review of Politics 43 (1981)

Gary Gossen, Telling Maya Tales: Tzotzil Identities in Modern Mexico (1999)

R. Quirk, The Mexican Revolution and the Catholic Church (1972)

Evon Vogt, Zinacatón: A Maya Community in the Highlands of Chiapas (1969)
 

Central America

Edward L. Cleary, "Religion in the Central American Embroglio," in Thomas Walker and Armony Ariel, eds., Repression, Resistance, and Democratic Transition in Central America (2000)

Rodolfo Cardenal, "The Church in Central America," in Enrique Dussel The Church in Latin America (1992)

J. Lloyd Mecham, "State Church and Free Church in the Republics of Central America," in Mecham, Church and State in Latin America (1966)

Jean Pierre Bastian, "Protestantismo popular y política en Guatemala y Nicaragua," Revista Mexicana de Sociología 48, 3 (1986), pp. 181-199 

Costa Rica

Philip Williams, The Catholic and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (1989)

Miguel Picado, La iglesia costarricense entre Dios y el César (1989)

Dana Marie Sawchuk, The Costa Rican Catholic Church, Social Justice, and Rights of Workers, 1979-1996, Toronto University diss. (2001)

El Salvador

Anna L. Peterson, Martyrdom and the Politics of Religion: Progressive Catholicism in El Salvador’s Civil War (1997)

James Brockman, Romero: A Life (1989)

Teresa Whitfield, Paying the Price: Ignacio Ellacuría and the Martyred Jesuits of El Salvador (1995)

Guatemala

Historical and Political Context: Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Protestantism in Guatemala: Living in the New Jerusalem (1998)

Edward L. Cleary, "Evangelicals and Competition in Guatemala," in Cleary and Stewart- Gambino, Conflict (1992)

Edward L. Cleary, "Birth of Latin American Indigenous Theology," in Guillermo Cook, ed., Crosscurrents in Indigenous Theology (1999)

Everett Wilson, "Guatemalan Pentecostals: Something of Their Own," in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, Power (1997)

Guatemala -- Missionization -- Colonial period -- History

Van Oss, Adriaan. 1986. Catholic Colonialism: A Parish History of Guatemala, 1524-1821. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Guatemala -- Maya -- Catholic Action -- Ethnography

Warren, Kay B. 1989. The Symbolism of Subordination: Indian identity in a Guatemalan Town. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Falla, Ricardo. 1978. Quiche rebelde: estudio de un movimiento de conversion religiosa, rebelde a las creencias tradicionales, en San Antonio Ilotenango, Quiche (1948-1970). Ciudad Universitaria, Guatemala: Editorial Universitaria de Guatemala.

Guatemala -- Maya -- Violence -- Protestantism -- Politics

Stoll, David. 1988. Evangelicals, Guerrillas, and the Army: The Ixil Triangle Under Ríos Montt. In Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis, edited by Robert M. Carmack, pp. 90-116. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Guatemala -- Maya -- Protestantism -- Economic conditions -- Ethnography

Annis, Sheldon. 1987. God and production in a Guatemalan town. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Guatemala -- Maya -- Popular Religion -- Protestantism -- Ethnography

Scotchmer, David G. 1986. Convergence of the Gods: Comparing Traditional Maya and Christian Maya Cosmologies. In Symbol and Meaning Beyond the Closed Community, edited by Gary H. Gossen, pp. 197-226. Albany: Institute for Mesoamerican Studies.
 

Guatemala -- Maya -- Popular Protestantism -- Ethnography

Scotchmer, David G. 1993. Life of the Heart: a Maya Protestant spirituality. In South and Meso-American Native Spirituality: from the Cult of the Feathered Serpent to the Theology of Liberation, edited by Gary H. Gossen, pp. 496-525. New York: Crossroad.

Guatemala -- Maya -- Violence -- Protestantism -- Politics

Stoll, David. 1988. Evangelicals, Guerrillas, and the Army: The Ixil Triangle Under Ríos Montt. In Harvest of Violence: The Maya Indians and the Guatemalan Crisis, edited by Robert M. Carmack, pp. 90-116. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Honduras

José María Tojeira, Panorama histórico de la Iglesia en Honduras (1990)

Edward T. Brett and Donna W. Brett, "Facing the Challenge: The Catholic Church and Social Change in Honduras," in Ralph Lee Woodward, ed., Central America: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Crises (1988)

Nicaragua

Andrew Stein, "The Church," in Thomas Walker, ed., Nicaragua without Illusions (1997)

Philip Williams, The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica (1989)

Michael Dodson and Laura Nuzzi O’Shaugnessy, Nicaragua’s Other Revolution: Religious Faith and Political Struggle (1990)

Debra Sabia, Contradiction and Conflict: The Popular Church in Nicaragua

Roger Lancaster, Thanks to God and the Revolution (1988)

Caribbean

Armando Lampe, Breve historia del Cristianismo en el Caribe (San José, Costa Rica: CEHILA, 1997)

Cuba

Margaret Crahan, Religion, Culture, and Society: The Case of Cuba, a Conference Report (2003)

Margaret Crahan, "Cuba," in Paul Sigmund, ed., Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America (1999)

Teresa Pedreza, "This Too Shall Pass: The Resistance and Endurance of Religion in Cuba," Cuba Studies 28 (1999), pp.16-39

John M. Kirk, "(Still) Waiting for John Paul II: The Church in Cuba, in Cleary and Stewart-Gambino, eds., Conflict (1992)

Frei Betto, Fidel and Religion: Castro Talks on Revolution and Religion with Frei Betto (1987) 

Dominican Republic

James A. Clark, The Church and the Crisis in the Dominican Republic (1967)

William L. Wipfler, The Churches of the Dominican Republic in the Light of History (1966)

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