WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
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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JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
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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