The Two Churches: Catholicism & Capitalism in the World-systemDuke University Press, 1992 - 172 páginas The single most important change now well under way within Catholicism is its transition from a First World to a Third World entity. How this enormous shift will affect the Catholic church's role in the world economy is the subject of Michael L. Budde's book, the first world systems study of the mutual interaction of religion and political economy in the 1990s. Budde's argument here is twofold. He contends that world Catholicism, led by its Third World majority (most notably in Latin America), will continue to develop in an increasingly anticapitalist direction; and he suggests that once-dominant First World Catholic churches (exemplified by the U.S. Catholic church), are poorly placed to respond in solidarity with their coreligionists from the Third World. Covering a wide range of theoretical and substantive matters, The Two Churches examines religion as a source of both social legitimation and social rebellion. It demonstrates the importance of ecclesiology, a branch of theology dealing with "theories of the church," and it highlights the effect of capitalism on world Catholicism, as well as the latter's influence on the development of the capitalist order. In his original, far-reaching analysis of the Catholic church's role in world affairs, Budde revises current views of religious institutions as subordinate social phenomena. By relating developments in the world political economy to material conditions in the Third World and in turn to the practice of Catholicism, he reveals how the Catholic church functions as a worldwide institution. He also shows how core-periphery conflicts within the church affect transnational capitalism. As the Third World becomes more and more volatile, and as its relations with the First World further complicate the politics of the Catholic church, the questions addressed in The Two Churches demand attention with increasing urgency. Timely, thoughtful, and lucid, this book will inform and enhance our understanding of this complex, pressing issue. |
Índice
Wallerstein Religion and Ecclesiology | 23 |
Anticapitalism and the Latin American Church | 38 |
U S Catholic Nationalism | 74 |
Resources for Change? U S Catholic Social Ethics | 100 |
Collapsing Communism | 126 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adriance American Catholic anticapitalism anticapitalist anticapitalist trend anticommunism Berrigan bishops Boff Brazil capitalism capitalist capitalist world economy CEBS CELAM Christian Church leaders civil religion clergy consensus conservative core core-periphery countries critical critique cultural Curran Dolan ecclesial ecclesiology economic elites episcopal Europe example experience factors groups hierarchy Hispanic ideology impact important institutions John Paul Latin American Church Leonardo Boff Lernoux levels liberation theology loose ecclesiology mainline Maryknoll McBrien McCann ment moral movement Murray Murray's natural law neoconservative norms ology Orbis Books parish pastoral agents peripheral political economy political-economic poor Pope position Press Protestant Protestantism radical reflect regions religious role secular society solidarity structural theologians theory Third World tight ecclesiology tion tradition tranquillitas ordinis U.S. Catholic Church U.S. Catholic Nationalism U.S. Church United University Vatican Vatican II Wallerstein Weigel world Catholicism World churches world economy world-system world-systems theory worldwide York
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