Looking into Catholic Activism in Mexico and the United States

Authors

  • Edward L. Cleary Providence College

Keywords:

catholicism, religion, activism

Abstract

A review of Joseph M. Palacios' The Catholic Social Imagination: Activism and the Just Society in Mexico and the United States (Chicago: Universityof Chicago Press, 2007).

Author Biography

Edward L. Cleary, Providence College

Edward Cleary, sacerdote dominico, es Profesor de Ciencia Política y director del Programa de Estudios Latinoamericanos en Providence College. Es autor de numerosos artículos y libros sobre religión y derechos humanos en América Latina. Entre sus principales publicaciones están Conversion of a Continent: Contemporary Religious Change in Latin America (2008) y Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change (2004), ambos co-editados con Timothy J. Steigenga; Mobilizing for Human Rights in Latin America (2007), The Struggle for Human Rights In Latin America (1997), y Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America (1996), co-editado con Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino.

Published

2008-10-05

How to Cite

Cleary, E. L. (2008). Looking into Catholic Activism in Mexico and the United States. A Contracorriente: Una Revista De Estudios Latinoamericanos, 6(1), 288–294. Retrieved from https://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/1029

Issue

Section

Reviews: Religion