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God’s Rottweillers
JOHN GREEN takes issue with a well-researched but politically naive history of the evangelical churches in Latin America
Disgraced Brazilian Evangelical pastor Magno Malta, a staunch ally of Jair Bolsonaro, presides over the conservative ‘Relaunching of the Parliamentary Front for the Defence of the Family’ 2015
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DENNIS BROE searches the literary canon to explore why a duplicitous, lying, cheating, conning US businessman is accepted as Scammer-in-Chief
MIK SABIERS raises a glass of Lambrini to commentary, diatribes, punk rock riffs, some pontification and a whole lot of fun
BRENT CUTLER unpicks the complex social relations imagined in a novel about the builders of Stonehenge
SUSAN DARLINGTON laments a version of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes that is unable to solve its own problems
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Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America – A Kingdom of This World
By C. Boas
Cambridge University Press, £75
LATIN AMERICA, since the Spanish conquest, has been a stronghold of the Catholic church which has dominated life and politics. As elsewhere, the Catholic church has been a strong conservative force and bulwark of dictatorships.
With the eruption of liberation theology in the 1960s, following the Second Vatical Council, a number of Latin American theologians took the side of the poor and challenged the conservatism of the Catholic hierarchy.
It was also in the 1960s and ‘70s that Evangelism became a significant factor in US politics.
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