Geopolitics of Global Catholicism av Petr (Institute of International Relations the Czech Republic) Kratochvil

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<p><i>Geopolitics of Global Catholicism</i> uncovers the key trends in today¿s Catholicism, providing an incisive analysis of its deep entanglement with national, regional, as well as global politics.</p><p>The book offers an exciting exploration of five versions of local Catholicism(s), and sheds light on the various theo-political constellations that differ widely across these national contexts but that also have global geopolitical consequences. The book is built around a novel theoretical argument showing that Catholic geopolitics contains not only a spatial dimension (as classic geopolitical studies would have it), but also a temporal one. As a consequence, the Catholic role in the world cannot be simply understood as a result of the spatial expansion of the church, but rather as a result of the complex relationships between Catholicism and colonization, inculturation, backwardness, and modernization(s). To counter the lingering Eurocentrism of most studies of the Catholic Church,