The Catholic Church in World Politics (Princeton Legacy Library, 785) - Softcover

Hanson, Eric O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691607567 ISBN 13: 9780691607566

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Eric Hanson's multifaceted book examines the place of the church in the contemporary international system and the reciprocal influence of modern political and technological developments on the internal affairs of the church.

Originally published in 1987.

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About this title

About the Author:

Eric O. Hanson is Patrick A. Donohoe S.J. Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University. He studied in East Asia for five years, including graduate work at National Taiwan University, before receiving his doctorate from Stanford University. He has been a fellow at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control. He is the author of Catholic Politics in China and Korea (1980) and The Catholic Church in World Politics (1990).

Review:

"[The book's] great merit is that it informs a Catholic public, and any others interested in the role of the Catholic Church in modern society, of much they may not have taken note of. There are excellent sections on the Lefebvre movement, on Opus Dei, on liberation theology, on the vicissitudes in recent years of the Society of Jesus, on the Vatican's policy toward Eastern Europe. . . .It is the best study of its kind that has so far appeared."---J. M. Cameron, New York Review of Books

"[Hanson's] is a well-written, lively narrative which puts together a staggering mass of recent research on Catholicism as an international system of action, political influence, and belief. . . . Buy it! You will learn more about Catholicism and world politics from it than from any other competing source."---John A. Coleman, Commonweal

"[A]n important, eminently readable book. [Hanson] has contributed substantially to the critically significant study of religion and politics in general and of Roman Catholicism and its diverse relationships to national governments in particular."---George E. Saint-Laurent, Journal of the American Academy of Religion

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0691607567
• ISBN 13: 9780691607566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 498