By Timothy A. Byrnes
Many Catholic monks, nuns, and brothers within the usa take a robust curiosity in US guidelines that have an effect on their "brothers and sisters" in a foreign country. actually, whilst the regulations in their local govt pose major hazards to their humans the world over, those US electorate have interaction actively in quite a few political procedures which will defend and improve the pursuits of the transnational non secular groups to which they belong. during this provocative exam of where of faith in international politics, Timothy A. Byrnes specializes in 3 Catholic communities—Jesuit, Maryknoll, and Benedictine—and how they search to form US coverage in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Mexico. in keeping with years of fieldwork and on-the-ground interviews, Reverse Mission information the transnational bonds that force the political actions of those Catholic orders.
This attention-grabbing publication finds how the boys and girls of those orders grew to become politically energetic in advanced and infrequently arguable explanations and the way, finally, they exert a special impression on international coverage that's derived from their communal loyalties instead of any ethnic or nationwide origin.
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