The history of the Catholic Church in Latin America from conquest to revolution and beyond / [electronic resource] :
John Frederick Schwaller.
- New York : New York University Press, c2011.
- 1 online resource (ix, 319 p.)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-302) and index.
Religious origins of Catholicism in Latin America -- Spain and Portugal, the New World -- Conquest, spiritual and otherwise -- The colonial church -- Reform and enlightenment -- The church and clergy in the time of independence -- Working out the differences -- Revolution and reform -- Revolution and reform -- The church at the middle of the twentieth century -- The decline of liberation theology.