The MWS project database provides an overview of current and completed projects at the institutes of the MWS and aims to make information on these accessible to everyone. It enables a search by subject area and subject. It is based on the selection of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) adapted by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek as the German specialised library for the field of history. It is also possible to search by country (states existing today) and major epochs. The database includes dissertation and habilitation projects that were funded, for example, as part of a scholarship, as well as the institute's own and third-party-funded collaborative projects.
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The project database aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the thematic breadth and diversity of research at the institutes and research groups of the MWS. Information on current research foci of the institutes can be found on the respective institute websites.
DHI Warschau,
DHI Rom
The Catholic Church and the global Cold War in Latin America
Partner: Latin American Centre/University of Oxford
Antragsteller/-in, Sprecher/-in, Projektleitung:
Daniel McDonald
Thema: Entwicklung katholischer Netzwerke; Lateinamerika
Themengebiet:
Zeitgeschichte
Epoche:
Neuzeit
This project examines the evolution of transnational Catholic networks in Latin America from WWII through the Cold War. Specifically, it focuses on networks centered on or inspired by the Dominican friar Louis-Joseph Lebret (1897-1966). As the progenitor of “Economy and Humanism,” Lebret founded influential research clusters in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia while facilitating networks of progressive Catholics across Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East. Lebret and his disciples played shaped the Church’s response to inequality and development across the Cold War, including the role many played in shaping Christian democratic movements and liberation theology, through the wave of democratic transitions in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s. This project further considers how U.S. and allied intelligence forces gradually came to consider Lebret’s teachings and his students’ activities as “subversive” with many being exiled, imprisoned, tortured, or subject to other state sanctions.