Title: La Iglesia costarricense entre el pueblo y el estado
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.
Subjects: Catholic Church, Church and social problems, Church and state, Church history, History
Places: Costa Rica
Time periods: 20th century