Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns : : The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America /

Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns : : The Catholic Conflict over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America / / Theresa Keeley.

In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns, Theresa Keeley analyzes the role of intra-Catholic conflict within the framework of US foreign policy formulation and execution during the Reagan Administration. She challenges the preponderance of scholarship on the administration that stresses the influence of eva...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Keeley, Theresa,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2022
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 4 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Catholic Divisions, U.S.–Central America Policy, and the Cold War
  • 1. From Senator McCarthy’s Darlings to Marxist Maryknollers
  • 2. Religious or Political Activists for Nicaragua?
  • 3. Subversives in El Salvador
  • 4. U.S. Guns Kill U.S. Nuns
  • 5. Reagan and the White House’s Maryknoll Nun
  • 6. Real Catholics versus Maryknollers
  • 7. Maryknoll and Iran-Contra
  • 8. Déjà Vu: Jesuits and Maryknollers
  • Epilogue: Women, the Catholic Church, and U.S.–Central America Relations after the Cold War
  • Notes on Research Methods
  • Notes
  • Primary Sources
  • Index

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