Lexington Books
Pages: 274
Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-0-7391-8006-8 • Paperback • November 2012 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-0-7391-7681-8 • eBook • November 2012 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Paul Christopher Manuel is professor of political science at Mount Saint Mary’s University.
Alynna J. Lyon is associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire.
Clyde Wilcox is professor of government at Georgetown University.
Foreword. A Tale of Two Statues
by Thomas Massaro, SJ, and Kenneth R. Himes, OFM
Part One. Theoretical, Historical, and Cultural Issues
Chapter One. Religion and Politics in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Three Theoretical Slices
by Paul Christopher Manuel, Alynna J. Lyon, and Clyde Wilcox
Chapter Two. Patterns of Settlement and Religious Imperial Agents in the Portuguese Empire
by José Damião Rodrigues
Chapter Three. Portugal and the Building of an Imaginary Empire
by Susana Goulart Costa
Chapter Four. India's Luso-Africans: The Politics of Culture, Race, Colonialism, and Gender in Early Modern Portugal and Post-Colonial Goa
by Bindu Malieckal
Part Two. Societies Dominated by a Single Religious Tradition
Chapter 5. The Activist Catholic Church in Independent East Timor: "The Church is Not a Political Institution"
by Alynna J. Lyon
Chapter Six. Religion and Politics in Contemporary Portugal: Devotion, Democracy, and the Marian Apparitions at Fátima
by Paul Christopher Manuel
Part Three. Competing Religious Societies, with a Formerly Dominant Church
Chapter Seven. Faith-State Relations in Brazil: What Does Religious Competition Mean for Democracy?
by Christine A. Gustafson
Chapter Eight. The "Depoliticizing Machine": Church and State in Angola since Independence
by Didier Péclard
Part Four. Societies with Marked Religious Diversity, without a Dominant Church
Chapter Nine. A Special Place: Imagining Goa from the Estado da India to Indian Independence
by Matthew N. Schmalz
Chapter Ten. The Catholic Church in Mozambique under Revolution, War, and Democracy
by Eric Morier-Genoud and Pierre Anouilh
Chapter Eleven. Conclusion: Between Land and Sea: Portugal's Two Nationalisms in the Twenty-first Century
by José Pedro Zúquete
Theoretically sophisticated and methodologically eclectic, this collection is a pleasure to read. The contributors have provided a marvelous account of an unlikely imperial power, as well as nuanced analyses of the multiple political and religious legacies of the Portuguese colonial experience.
— Ted G. Jelen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
This is a fascinating collection of essays on the complex role played by the Catholic Church in Portugal and the Portuguese colonies. Full of little known facts and intriguing insights, this collection is an excellent argument for interdisciplinary work and the need to study religious institutions as political actors.
— Nancy Bermeo, University of Oxford