Reagan's gun-toting nuns : the Catholic conflict over Cold War human rights policy in Central America / Theresa Keeley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keeley, Theresa, 1976- author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maryknoll Sisters--Political activity--Central America--History--20th century.

Maryknoll Sisters.

Catholics--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.

Catholics.

Catholics--Political activity--Central America--History--20th century.

Religion and politics--United States.

Religion and politics.

Catholic Church and world politics--History--20th century.

Catholic Church and world politics.

Christianity and international relations--History--20th century.

Christianity and international relations.

United States--Foreign relations--Central America.

United States.

Central America--Foreign relations--United States.

Central America.

United States--Foreign relations--1981-1989.

United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.

Central America--Politics and government--1979-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This volume analyzes the role of intra-Catholic conflict within the framework of U.S. foreign policy formulation and execution during the Reagan administration. The book challenges the preponderance of scholarship on the administration that stresses the influence of evangelical Protestants on foreign policy toward Latin America. Especially in the case of U.S. engagement in El Salvador and Nicaragua, the book argues, the bitter debate between U.S. and Central American Catholics over the direction of the Catholic Church shaped President Reagan's foreign policy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Catholic Divisions, U.S.–Central America Policy, and the Cold War

1. From Senator McCarthy’s Darlings to Marxist Maryknollers

2. Religious or Political Activists for Nicaragua?

3. Subversives in El Salvador

4. U.S. Guns Kill U.S. Nuns

5. Reagan and the White House’s Maryknoll Nun

6. Real Catholics versus Maryknollers

7. Maryknoll and Iran-Contra

8. Déjà Vu: Jesuits and Maryknollers

Epilogue: Women, the Catholic Church, and U.S.–Central America Relations after the Cold War

Notes on Research Methods

Notes

Primary Sources

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2021).

ISBN:

9781501750779

1501750771

OCLC:

1191811306