economic realities, escape the usual theorizations of such phenomena. For this
reason, if for no other, scholars of religion in other parts of the world might
find it useful to keep two points in mind. First, Latin America is one of the
main laboratories for studying relations between religion and society in the
world today, and second, the work of Latin American scholars is a central
resource in pursuing this study.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Steven Engler is indebted to Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcântara and Silas
Guerriero for comments on earlier drafts and to the generosity of João
Edênio Reis Valle (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo), Lísias
Nogueira Negrão (Universidade de São Paulo), and Antônio Gouvêa Mendoça
(Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie) for a series of invaluable conversations.
A number of scholars recommended specific works: Eduardo Rodrigues da Cruz,
Maria José Rosado-Nunes, Edin Sued Abumanssur, Ênio José da Costa Brito,
Frank Usarski, Leonildo Silveira Campos, Patricia Birman, and Carlos Alberto
Steil.
NOTES
1 The chapter was edited by Engler, who also translated the sections on Argentina,
Mexico, and Peru from Spanish. Some elements of the section on Brazil appear
in a different form in Engler (2005, 2006); for a more extended discussion of
Brazil, see Engler (forthcoming). Helpful national overviews include Lehmann
(2002) on Brazil, Parker Gumucio (1996) on Chile, García Chiang (2004) on
Mexico, Ortmann (2002) on Peru, and Soneira (1996) on the four countries of
the cono sur.
2 ‘Aprismo’ was a political movement rooted in a party, A.P.R.A. (Alianza Popular
Revolucionaria Americana), founded by the Peruvian Víctor Raúl Haya de la
Torre in 1924. It presented itself as a social democratic and ‘indoamerican’
nationalist alternative to both capitalism and socialism and was the first Latin
American mass movement to achieve some continental impact. [SE]
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