Latin America Book Review

John Lynch the author of New worlds a religious history of latin America is Emeritus Professor of latin America history and former director of the institute of latin America Studies , He spent most of his academic career at University College. The main focus of his work has been Spanish America in the period 1750–1850.he is also the author of simon Bolivar and San martin .
In this most recent book, in order to write a comprehensive social and political history of religion in Latin America. Lynch brings to bear his considerable expertise in administrative and institutional history to the analysis of New World religious institution . Lynch's project is richly interpretive and his unsurpassed knowledge of latin america history to sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives .the book focuses on religious history and historical development ,it studies the the life of the church and the recption of Christianity by the peoples of latin america .. He also explore the extent to which Indian religion ways survived within the christen culture with a treatment and discussions neither …show more content…
lynch develops a number of special themes and topics : the growing challenge of liberalism and the secular state and in the twentieth centry ,military dictators , human rights throughout the narrative and the position of slavery . Most historians of religion in Latin America would place the development of liberation theology as chronologically prior to the explosion of Evangelical Protestantism. Lynch steps outside of the traditional boundaries of the historical discipline to enter into a theological debate around the church's proper relationship to political movements. Lynch is highly critical of liberation