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“Michael Fleet and Brian Smith have produced an interesting comparison of the roles played by the Catholic Church in Chile and Peru during the transition from military to civilian government. They show why the Church in Chile was an important influence in the movement toward a quasi-democracy whereas the Peruvian Church was not. Their analysis has significance beyone these two cases, for similar transitions have recently occurred in several Latin American countries.” —Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Michael Fleet is Associate Professor of Political Science at Marquette University and the author of The Rise and Fall of Chilean Christian Democracy (1985).
Brian H. Smith holds the Charles and Joan Van Zoeren Chair in Religion, Ethics, and Values at Ripon College. He is the author of More Than Altruism: The Politics of Private Foreign Aid(1990) and Religious Politics in Latin America, Pentecostal vs. Catholic (1998).