La Iglesia costarricense entre el pueblo y el estado
Subtitle: de 1949 a nuestros días
By: Miguel Picado G.
Publisher: Guayacán
Published: 1989
Place of publication: [San José, C.R.]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Costa Rica -- History -- 20th century.; Church and state -- Costa Rica -- History -- 20th century.; Church and social problems -- Costa Rica -- History -- 20th century.; Church and social problems -- Catholic Church -- History -- 20th century.; Costa Rica -- Church history.
Description: "A political sociology of Catholicism in Costa Rica since the late 1940s, with a rich gathering of Catholic perspectives ranging from the Costa Rican grassroots all the way up to the papacy. From a left-Catholic perspective the author traces changes from the 1950s-60s symbiosis of welfare-state and a proreformist church, through a later preferential option for the middle classes (N.B., not the poor), and to the more recent alleged exhaustion/crisis of the national welfare state, itself paralleled by the growth of both neoconservative Catholics and Protestant evangelical groups"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-323).