Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America

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Contents List of Figures xi List of Tables xiii List of Acronyms xvii Preface and Acknowledgments xxiii 1 Introduction: The New Landscape 1 Frances Hagopian Pa r t I Pluralist Challenges to the Contemporary Catholic Church in Latin America: Institutions and Beliefs in a Context of Religious and Social Change 2 Cultural Change, Religion, Subjective Well-Being, and Democracy in Latin America 67 Ronald Inglehart 3 Cultural Change in Mexico at the Turn of the Century: The Secularization of Women’s Identity and the Erosion of the Authority of the Catholic Church 96 Soledad Loaeza viii | Contents 4 Education and Increasing Religious Pluralism in Latin America: The Case of Chile 131 Cristián Parker Gumucio Pa r t I I Church Responses to Democratic and Religious Pluralism 5 With or Without the People: The Catholic Church and Land-Related Conflicts in Brazil and Chile 185 Patricia M. Rodriguez 6 The Changing Face of Religion in the Democratization of Mexico: The Case of Catholicism 225 Roberto J. Blancarte 7 Social Justice, Moral Values, or Institutional Interests? Church Responses to the Democratic Challenge in Latin America 257 Frances Hagopian Pa r t I I I The Church, Public Policy, and Democracy 8 Life, Liberty, and Family Values: Church and State in the Struggle over Latin America’s Social Agenda 335 Mala Htun 9 Religion and Public Spaces: Catholicism and Civil Society in Peru 365 Catalina Romero Contents | ix Pa r t I V Conclusions: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 10 Pluralism as Challenge and Opportunity 405 Daniel H. Levine 11 The Catholic Church in a Plural Latin America: Toward a New Research Agenda 429 Frances Hagopian About the Contributors 467 Index 472 ...