Salvation through Christ or Marx

Religion in Revolutionary Cuba

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4547769
AutoresMargaret E Crahan (Georgetown University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1979
Volumen21
Número1
Páginas156-184
Fecha de publicación1979-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/165694
OpenAlexW2782742273
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas9

Unlike churches in the rest of Latin America, those in Cuba did not embark at the outset of the 1960s on a period of liberalization and innovation in theology, pastoral forms, lay participation and political strategies. Rather, the coming to power in 1959 of a revolutionary government and the initiation of substantial societal restructuring reinforced conservatism within the churches. Strong challenges to the legitimacy of the government by the churches from 1959 through 1961 were not effective due largely to institutional limitations and their identification as bulwarks of prerevolutionary structures. Hence, in spite of a marked increase in participation and contributions, the churches' counterrevolutionary stance had limited impact. Contributing to this was the exodus of many religious activists to the United States and Spain, and a turning in upon themselves by the churches which came to serve as refuges from change

Conservatism · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Latin Americans · Legitimacy · Liberalization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Restructuring · Sociology · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Philosophy