Geopolitics of Global Catholicism: Politics of Religion in Space and Time [Hardcover]

Introduction

1.???? The Catholic Church in Brazil: The Lost Monopoly

2.???? Catholicism in the United States: A House Divided?

3.???? Indian Catholicism: A Vibrant Microcosm under Threat?

4.???? Catholicism in China: Between Great Hopes and Stagnation?????

5.???? The Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Rise of A Different Catholicism????????

6.???? The Geopolitics of Global Catholicism: A Conclusion (or Is It?)

Geopolitics of Global Catholicism?uncovers the key trends in todays Catholicism, including its deep entanglement with national, regional, as well as global politics, providing a comprehensive analysis.

Geopolitics of Global Catholicism uncovers the key trends in todays Catholicism, providing an incisive analysis of its deep entanglement with national, regional, as well as global politics.

This book offers an exciting exploration of five versions of local Catholicism(s) and sheds light on the various theo-political constellations that not only differ widely across these national contexts but also have global geopolitical consequences. It is built around a novel theoretical argument showing that Catholic geopolitics contains not only a spatial dimension (as classic geopolitical studies would have it) but also a temporal one. As a consequence, the Catholic role in the world cannot be simply understood as a result of the spatial expansion of the Church but rather as a result of the complex relationships between Catholicism and colonization, inculturation, backwardness, and modernization(s). To counter the lingering Eurocentrism of most studies of the Catholic Church, this books case studies explore Catholic geopolitics in five non-European contexts, focusing mainly on the Global South (plus the United States): Latin America (Brazil), North America (the lÃ4