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Religion and Politics, Politics and Religion: An Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Daniel H. Levine
Daniel H. Levine*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan, 5601 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Religion and politics have depended on and influenced one another since the origins of what we know as Latin America. Their relation is both mutual and multifaceted; mutual because religion and politics have evolved together over the years, taking material and symbolic support from one another, and multifaceted because it embraces interinstitutional conflict and accommodation (e.g., the “church-state” relations which dominated earlier scholarship) as well as more subtle and elusive exchanges whereby religious and political orders gave legitimacy and moral authority to one another. In this process, religious notions of hierarchy, authority, and obedience reflected and reinforced the pattern of existing social and political arrangements to such an extent that the two orders often seemed indistinguishable.

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Research Article
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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 21 , Issue 1: Special Issue: The Church and Politics in Latin America , February 1979 , pp. 5 - 30
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Copyright © University of Miami 1979

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