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Article: The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru.
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs
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- July 1, 1998
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Fleet, Michael, and Brian H. Smith. The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. Tables, notes, bibliography, index, ix, 366 pages; hardcover $45.
It has been 30 years since the sociologist Ivan Vallier wrote his enormously stimulating article "Religious Elites: Differentiations and Developments in Roman Catholicism," which breathed life into social science research on religion and the Catholic church in Latin America. Vallier described a church whose traditional strategies for exercising influence in society, while effective for centuries, had become "bankrupt" by the mid-twentieth century and whose leadership therefore faced ...