For God and Fatherland: Religion and Politics in Argentina (SUNY series in Religion, Culture, and Society) - Tapa dura

"Burdick provides (at long last) a basic study of the twentieth-century Argentine Catholic Church. It will become the standard study not simply because there is little competition, but primarily because Burdick's study covers the necessary material so competently and carefully, and places it in the larger contexts of Argentine history and twentieth-century Catholicism. While this book could remain primarily descriptive/historical, Burdick goes beyond description to discuss theoretical/analytical issues relevant to the Argentine case and to religion and politics in Latin America more generally. He stresses the distinctiveness of the Argentine Church as well as its parallels to Catholicism elsewhere in Latin America." -- Anna L. Peterson, University of Florida

"Title is somewhat misleading. While the work presents information on the conflict between church and state in the 1880s and examines the Perâon regime's relationship with the Church, the heart of the book is much more tightly defined. Presents a detailed and sympathetic picture of the Movement for Priests of the Third World, a leftist tendency within the Church that favored peronism, during the 1960s-70s"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/