The Costa Rican Catholic Church, social justice, and the rights of workers, 1979-1996 / Dana Sawchuk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawchuk, Dana, 1968-

Contributor:

Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, Content Provider.

Series:

Editions SR ; v. 30.

Editions SR ; v. 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Religious aspects--Christianity--Costa Rica--History--20th century.

Labor.

Labor movement--Costa Rica--History--20th century.

Labor movement.

Social justice--Costa Rica--History--20th century.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Provides a new understanding of the relationship between Church and State in 20th-century Costa Rica. Understanding the relationship between religion and social justice in Costa Rica involves piecing together the complex interrelationships between Church and State - between priests, popes, politics, and the people. This book does just that. Dana Sawchuk chronicles the fortunes of the country's two competing forms of labour organizations during the 1980's and demonstrates how different factions within the Church came to support either the union movement or Costa Rica's home

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Crisis in Costa Rica; 3 The Unions in the Face of the Crisis; 4 Official Catholic Social Teaching on Workers' Issues; 5 Monseñor Arrieta and CECOR; 6 CECODERS; 7 Limón Province; 8 The ESJ23; 9 The Official Church in Limón; 10 Liberationist and Conservative Catholicisms in Costa Rica and Beyond; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des sciences religieuses.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610280711

9781280280719

1280280719

9780889209343

0889209340

9781417562206

141756220X

OCLC:

753479586