DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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God’s Rottweillers
JOHN GREEN takes issue with a well-researched but politically naive history of the evangelical churches in Latin America
Disgraced Brazilian Evangelical pastor Magno Malta, a staunch ally of Jair Bolsonaro, presides over the conservative ‘Relaunching of the Parliamentary Front for the Defence of the Family’ 2015
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STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America – A Kingdom of This World
By C. Boas
Cambridge University Press, £75
LATIN AMERICA, since the Spanish conquest, has been a stronghold of the Catholic church which has dominated life and politics. As elsewhere, the Catholic church has been a strong conservative force and bulwark of dictatorships.
With the eruption of liberation theology in the 1960s, following the Second Vatical Council, a number of Latin American theologians took the side of the poor and challenged the conservatism of the Catholic hierarchy.
It was also in the 1960s and ‘70s that Evangelism became a significant factor in US politics.
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