The Church and society in Latin America : selected papers from the conference at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 29-30, 1982 / [edited by Jeffrey A. Cole].

Includes bibliographical references.

An alternative path to success? Careers in the sixteenth century church -- a case study / Victoria Cummins -- The third Mexican provincial council of 1585 and the reform of the diocesan clergy / Stafford Poole -- The implementation of the Ordenanza del Patronazgo in New Spain / John Frederick Schwaller -- Un acercamiento a la metolog ia de colonizaci on: la primitiva obra hospitalaria de los franciscanos en la Nueva Espa na / Cecilia Barba -- The social and economic roles of Indian cofrad ias in colonial Chiapas / Murdo J. MacLeod -- Worlds in contrasts: rural and urban confraternities in Mexico at the end of the eighteenth century / Asuncion Lavrin -- Slavery and the inquisition in New Spain: a note on the 'closed system' thesis of Stanley Elkins / Richard Boyer -- Sugar planters by necessity, not choice: the role of the Jesuits in the cane sugar industry of colonial Brazil, 1601-1759 / Dauril Alden -- The expulsion of the Jesuits from the Llanos of Casanare: a reassessment / Jane M. Rausch -- The impact of federalism on Mexican church-state relations, 1824-1836: the case of the state of Mexico / Charles J. Macune, Jr. -- Protestant diplomats and the church-state conflict in early republican Chile / T. Ray Shurbutt -- The reconstruction of the Paraguayan Church, 1841-1850 / Jerry W. Cooney -- The role of women in the Mexican Cristero Rebellion: las se noras and las religiosas / Barbara Miller -- The growth and development of Catholic labor organizations in Ecuador / Richard L. Milk -- Costa Rica: the U.S. perception of the church and communism, 1931-1948 / Thomas M. Leonard -- The church and the Allende regime: a study of change, continuity, and conflict in a revolutionary society / Ernest S. Sweeney -- The controversies over the Summer Institute of Linguistics / David Stoll -- The Catholic Church and El Salvador / Thomas E. Quigley.

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