Lancaster, Roger N,

Thanks to God and the revolution : popular religion and class consciousness in the new Nicaragua / [print] Roger N. Lancaster. - New York : Columbia University Press, (c)1988. - xxi, 244 pages ; 24 cm.



Prologue : theses on a philosophy of Central American history -- Introduction : seeing Nicaragua -- The religion of tradition : the popular religion -- The religion of hope : the popular church -- Liberation theology and the spirit of socialism in Nicaragua -- The theology of creative despair : evangelical Protestantism -- Priests, saints, martyrs and guerrilleros : observations on the structure of authority in Sandinista Nicaragua -- Marxism and religion : a critique -- Conclusion : religion, class consciousness, and revolution.



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Christianity--Nicaragua.
Social classes--History--Nicaragua--20th century.
Communism and religion--History--20th century.

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