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.