Global Catholicism
Subtitle: diversity and change since Vatican II
By: Ian Linden.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780231154161
Subjects: Catholic Church -- History -- 1965-; Vatican Council
Description: "Global Catholicism charts the complex history of the forces of renewal unleashed on the Roman Catholic Church by the Second Vatican Council and the counter-forces that were mobilised against it during the last half century. Ian Linden offers a comprehensive analysis of how much the Catholic Church has lived up to the Council's promise, come to terms with pluralism, modernity, and different forms of spirituality and become a genuinely world Church, the only competitor to global Islam in the twenty-first century.

He focuses notably on changes that had wider historical importance than the internal evolution of the Roman Catholic Church as a religious organisation: war and peace, nationalism and democratisation in Africa, liberation theology, military dictatorships, guerrilla movements in Latin America, Africa and Philippines, interaction with communist governments, inculturation and relations with resurgent Islam."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.