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A Left „Theocracy" : The Church and the State in Revolutionary Nicaragua

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Jakopovich, Daniel
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This paper analyses the antagonism between the established (Ni¬caraguan and global) Catholic Church and the Sandinista movement and government, which was one of the focal points for the ascendancy of a conti¬nental and global liberation theology movement. The paper provides a critical overview of the Nicaraguan liberation theology movement, as well as Sandi¬nista strategies, primarily in relation to the social functions of religion and religious institutions. The central focus of this essay is to identify how the left-theological and Sandinista understanding of the imperatives of the counter¬-hegemonic project, the „historical bloc“ (conceived as a system of political and social networks and alliances) and the „national-popular“strategy contributed to the tentative naissance of a novel state religion and a novel political project: a left-wing „theocratic“ social order. The Nicaraguan experience is useful for focusing the wider discussion about the importance of context-specific nor¬mat...ive judgments about Church-state relations.

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liberation theology / the historical bloc / national popular
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Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 2014, 157-178
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  • Beograd : Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju

DOI: 10.2298/FID1402157J

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