Geopolitics of Global Catholicism: Politics of Religion in Space and Time

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Geopolitics-of-Global-Catholicism-Politics-of-Religion-in-Space-and-Time/Kratochvil/p/book/9781032599472?srsltid=AfmBOoo0t" target="_blank" >https://www.routledge.com/Geopolitics-of-Global-Catholicism-Politics-of-Religion-in-Space-and-Time/Kratochvil/p/book/9781032599472?srsltid=AfmBOoo0t</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003456933" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003456933</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Geopolitics of Global Catholicism: Politics of Religion in Space and Time

Original language description

Geopolitics of Global Catholicism uncovers the key trends in today’s Catholicism, providing an incisive analysis of its deep entanglement with national, regional, as well as global politics. This book offers an exciting exploration of five versions of local Catholicism(s) and sheds light on the various theo-political constellations that not only differ widely across these national contexts but also have global geopolitical consequences. It is built around a novel theoretical argument showing that Catholic geopolitics contains not only a spatial dimension (as classic geopolitical studies would have it) but also a temporal one. As a consequence, the Catholic role in the world cannot be simply understood as a result of the spatial expansion of the Church but rather as a result of the complex relationships between Catholicism and colonization, inculturation, backwardness, and modernization(s). To counter the lingering Eurocentrism of most studies of the Catholic Church, this book’s case studies explore Catholic geopolitics in five non-European contexts, focusing mainly on the Global South (plus the United States): Latin America (Brazil), North America (the United States), Asia (India and China), and Africa (the Democratic Republic of the Congo). These case studies also show that the successes and failures of Catholicism cannot be explained by a recourse to a single, top-down interpretation of Catholic geopolitics, but rather by exploring the various Catholic spatio-temporal constellations on the global, regional, and local levels. With the accelerating diversification of the Church and the growing role of the Global South, these local and regional influences gain further importance as they are likely to increasingly define the future of Catholicism.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA19-10969S" target="_blank" >GA19-10969S: Geopolitics of the Catholic Church</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-1-03-259947-2

Number of pages

242

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

Abingdon

UT code for WoS book

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