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Empire’s Workshop with Greg Grandin

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Liberation Theology and the Religious Right

You write that the religious right was motivated to get involved in central america by itsopposit to leftist liberation theology. You argue that foreign policy was really key, something we see gan in the last few decades with their role in attacking so called political islam. How did this religious rite crusade make, quote, possible the remoralization of American power?

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