Keywords
Chile, Catholic Church, liberation theology
Abstract
This article aims to investigate the changing political alignment of the Chilean Catholic Church following the fall of the dictatorship in the early 1990’s. The author brings together a primary source collection of new articles, photographs, and interviews, as well as a secondary source collection of sociological surveys and historiography, to interrogate the process and outcome of this political transition. The article maintains that desires for hierarchical control and a rejection of past, progressive theology motivated Church leaders to transition the Church away from community based leadership, to clerical control.
Recommended Citation
Porras Payea, September (2021) "Selection from "Una Iglesia Desaparecida: The End of an Era for the Chilean Catholic Church"," Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal: 2 (1), 103-116. 10.24968/2693-244X.2.1.8 https://works.swarthmore.edu/suhj/vol2/iss1/8