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Church Elites in Venezuela and Colombia: Context, Background, and Beliefs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Daniel H. Levine
Daniel H. Levine*
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University of Michigan
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Throughout the world, the Catholic Church has been in ferment since the Second Vatican Council. In Latin America, traditionally a Catholic region, the application of the council's ideas has stimulated dramatic changes in the outlook and practices of Church groups. These changes are particularly visible in the development of a new language for describing and evaluating temporal action (“the world”), and in the emergence of novel perspectives on the Church's proper relation to “the world.” What is the import of such changes for the student of politics?

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Research Article
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , 1979 , pp. 51 - 79
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Copyright © 1979 by the University of Texas Press

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I am grateful to Kathleen Durham, Zvi Gitelman, John Kingdon, Robert Putnam, and Alexander Wilde for comments and criticism.

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