Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780190234270
Subjects: Church and state; Argentina, history
Description: Drawing on interviews with victims of forced disappearance, documents from the state and the Church, as well as field work and participant observation, The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War explores how the Argentine government deployed the legitimating discourse of Catholicism to justify terrorism in the case of La Salette missionaries. It examines how the official Catholic hierarchy rationalized their silence, and how the victims understood their Catholic faith in such a context --