MARK TURNER holds on tight for a mesmerising display of Neath-born ragtime virtuosity
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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ALAN MORRISON introduces a UK poet whose despised daytime occupation provides the subject for his writing
MARK TURNER wallows in the virtuosity of Swansea Jazz Festival openers, Simon Spillett and Pete Long
PAUL DONOVAN recommends three new books that explore the human relationship with nature
Doomed adolescents, when the missing person is you, classic whodunnit, and an anti-capitalist eco-thriller
WILL STONE takes a ticket to indie disco heaven, but misses the rarely performed tunes
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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