Catholic Church and revolution in Central America – paradigm shift in Nicaragua

Authors

  • Fábio Régio Bento Universidade Federal do Pampa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.59141

Keywords:

International Relations, Religion, Marxism, Liberation Theology

Abstract

In this research we shall verify the influence of Nicaraguan experience on breaking the paradigm under which religion and religious actors would be more associated to status quo preservation rather than its rupture.

According to our work hypothesis, in Nicaragua religion was not the opium of the people, used for its social anesthesia, but the promoter of social changes, and through international diffusion of this experience, mainly in the context of socialist countries, the alliance between laic and Christian socialists in Nicaragua promoted also a shift in the traditional hermeneutic paradigm which reduced religion to the permanent condition of opium of the people.

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Author Biography

Fábio Régio Bento, Universidade Federal do Pampa

Professor of Religion and International Relations in the course of International Relations at Universidade Federal do Pampa

Published

2016-02-15

How to Cite

Bento, F. R. (2016). Catholic Church and revolution in Central America – paradigm shift in Nicaragua. Conjuntura Austral, 7(33-34), 33–44. https://doi.org/10.22456/2178-8839.59141

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Section

RESEARCH
Received 2015-10-06
Accepted 2015-12-03
Published 2016-02-15

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