The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru (Online) by
This book is set within the context of the Vatican moving to restrict the Chilean and Peruvian Church's social and political activities.
The Church and Politics in Chile: Challenges to Modern Catholicism (Online) by
Clarifying the growing role of the Latin American Catholic Church as an agent of social change, Brian H. Smith discusses the prophetic function of the Chilean Church during the country's metamorphosis from Conservative to Christian Democratic to Marxist to repressive military regime.
I Surrender: A Memoir of Chile's Dictatorship, 1975 by
Two years after a CIA-assisted coup overthrew the democratically-elected president of Chile, Kathleen Osberger, a recent graduate and lay volunteer from Notre Dame, travelled to Santiago to teach in a Catholic grade school. Upon arrival she was told a secret: the religious women she would live with sheltered dissidents in the cross-hairs of Pinochet's secret police. Soon, events crescendo, and Osberger is handed a blindfold, a warrant, and must go on the run.
The Vatican and Catholic Activism in Mexico and Chile (Online) by
A political and religious history of transnational Catholic activism in Chile and Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s.
Lived Religion, Pentecostalism, and Social Activism in Authoritarian Chile by
Explores Pentecostal social engagement as it was folded into the circumstances of everyday life during the Chilean military dictatorship (1973 - 1990).
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