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Summing up: Recommended --E. Thompson, UMUC, CHOICE Makes a compelling and convincing case for examining pre-Vatican II Latin American Catholicism to more fully understand the many complex issues that have emerged in the post-Vatican II era. - Kristy Nabhan-Warren, The University of Iowa -- This important volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of Latin American Catholicism. Filling a major gap in the area's religious history, it forces us to revise the narrative that Catholic social programs and lay activism began in the 1960s with Vatican II. Based on painstaking archival research, the eleven chapters uncover previously unknown lay activists both male and female, grassroots lay organizations, clerically directed development projects, and transnational connections. This book is especially relevant today because it shows that Pope Francis --often labeled the Liberation Theology Pope because of his emphasis on challenging the powerful and serving the poor --is instead following a long tradition of progressive Catholicism that thrived in Latin America since the late nineteenth century. --Silvia Marina Arrom, professor emerita of History & Latin American Studies, Brandeis University

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Stephen J. C. Andes is assistant professor of history, Louisiana State University, USA and author of The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile. Julia G. Young is assistant professor of history at the Catholic University of America, USA and author of Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles and Refugees of the Cristero War.

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