De laatste bloeiperiode van de kerkbouw in Noordwest-Europa voltrok zich in de eerste decennia na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Enerzijds moest de oorlogsschade worden gerepareerd, anderzijds zette de bevolkingsgroei aan tot de uitbreiding van dorpen en steden. Afhankelijk van de aanwezige religieuze denominatie(s) werden nieuwbouwwijken voorzien van één of meerdere kerkgebouwen. De spectaculaire opleving in de kerkbouw hield aan tot het midden van de jaren zestig toen toenemende ontkerkelijking ...

In Guatemala, the 36-year armed conflict from 1960 to 1996 claimed 200,000 lives, over two per cent of the population, and displaced a million more. In the 1970s and the 1980s the widespread and violent repression of social movements fighting for justice and human rights reached unimaginable proportions, involving assassinations, disappearances, and exile. Even parts of the Church, traditionally considered an ally of the powerful and the wealthy, were not spared this fate.

Missionaries and Re...

Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix to which the Church belonged. Missionary movements to Latin America coincided with visions for a progressive, radically transformative church.

Landscapes of Liberation expands scholarship into liberation theology’s reception in Andean America and critically examines the interplay of the Catholic Church as a global institution with...