About the Contributors

Thomas C Brunau is chairman and professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. His work on the church in Brazil hoped to define the field of study of religion in Latin America. He is author of The Church in Brazil: The Politics of Religion and The Political Transformation of the Brazilian Catholic Church.

Edward L. Cleary is visiting professor at Yale University and director and professor of Hispanic studies at the Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio. He is author of Crisis and Change. The Church in Latin America and editor of Born of the Poor. The Latin American Church since Medellin and Shaping a New World. An Orientation to Latin America, among others.

Carol Ann Drogus is assistant professor in the Department of Government at Hamilton College. She has written on women in grassroots communities in Brazil.

Brian Froehle has worked for two years in CISOR, a research center in Caracas, Venezuela. He is completing his dissertation in sociology at the University of Michigan on the church in Venezuela.

W. E. Hewitt is a member of the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. He is author of Base Christian Communities and Social Change in Brazil as well as a number of! articles on Brazil.

John M. Kirk is professor in the Department of Spanish at Dalhousie University. He has written extensively on Cuba and other Latin American topics. He is author of Between God and the Party: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Cuba and editor of Cuban Foreign Policy Confronts a New International Order (with H. Michael Erisman).

Jeffrey Klaiber teaches at the Catholic University in Lima and has been a resident of Peru bar more than 25 years. He recently completed the second edition of his history of the church in Peru, La Iglesia en el Peru, and has published numerous other works on Peru.

Hannah Stewart-Gambino is a member of the Department of Government at Lehigh University. She is author of The Catholic Church and Politics in the Chilean Countryside and numerous other publications on the church in Latin America.

Philip Williams is a member of the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida and has taught at the Universidad Simon Canas, San Salvador. He is author of The Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica.