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The Catholic Church and Politics in Brazil, 1916-1985 . By Scott Mainwaring. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp. xv, 253. Notes. Select References. Index. $36.00.)

The author of this work, a member of the government department and Kellog Institute at Notre Dame, offers a timely examination of the social and political forces that have shaped the manifest transformation of the leadership of the Brazilian Catholic Church in this century, particularly since 1955. An introductory chapter asserts an eclectic theoretical orientation within institutional analysis, utilizing aspects of classical and neo-Marxian sociologies of religion (though shunning class analysis). The three-part study continues with a historical account of different strategies adopted by the Church in Brazil to regain a national presence lost since the separation of church and state in the Constitution of the first republic in 1891.