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- Title
A Left Theocracy": The Church and the State in Revolutionary Nicaragua.
- Authors
Jakopovich, Daniel
- Abstract
This paper analyses the antagonism between the established (Nicaraguan and global) Catholic Church and the Sandinista movement and government, which was one of the focal points for the ascendancy of a continental and global liberation theology movement. The paper provides a critical overview of the Nicaraguan liberation theology movement, as well as Sandinista strategies, primarily in relation to the social functions of religion and religious institutions. The central focus of this essay is to identify how the left-theological and Sandinista understanding of the imperatives of the counter- -hegemonic project, the historical bloc" (conceived as a system of political and social networks and alliances) and the national-popular"strategy contributed to the tentative naissance of a novel state religion and a novel political project: a left-wing theocratic" social order. The Nicaraguan experience is useful for focusing the wider discussion about the importance of context-specific normative judgments about Church-state relations.
- Subjects
LIBERATION theology; THEOCRACY; CATHOLIC Church
- Publication
Filozofija i Drustvo, 2014, Vol 25, Issue 2, p157
- ISSN
0353-5738
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2298/FID1402157J