For God and Fatherland

Michael A. Burdick is Research Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"Burdick provides (at long last) a basic study of the twentieth-century Argentine Catholic Church. It will become the standard study not simply because there is little competition, but primarily because Burdick's study covers the necessary material so competently and carefully, and places it in the larger contexts of Argentine history and twentieth-century Catholicism. While this book could remain primarily descriptive/historical, Burdick goes beyond description to discuss theoretical/analytical issues relevant to the Argentine case and to religion and politics in Latin America more generally. He stresses the distinctiveness of the Argentine Church as well as its parallels to Catholicism elsewhere in Latin America." — Anna L. Peterson, University of Florida

• Preface Introduction One. The Crisis Between Church And State Two. Perón, Religion, And The Catholic Church Three. In The Aftermath Of The Revolution: Towards the Catholic Restoration of Society Four. The Movement Of Priests For The Third World Part I: The Formation of a Movement Five. The Movement Of Priests For The Third World Part II: Alliances, Divisions and Dissolution Six. The Church And The Search For Democracy Epilogue Bibliography Index