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Includes index. ; Reprint of the 1916 ed. published by Macmillan, New York. ; Translation of Politik. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 2

Religion and politics have depended on and influenced one another since the origins of what we know as Latin America. Their relation is both mutual and multifaceted; mutual because religion and politics have evolved together over the years, taking material and symbolic support from one another, and multifaceted because it embraces interinstitutional conflict and accommodation (e.g., the "church-state" relations which dominated earlier scholarship) as well as more subtle and elusive exchanges whereby religious and political orders gave legitimacy and moral authority to one another. In this process, religious notions of hierarchy, authority, and obedience reflected and reinforced the pattern of existing social and political arrangements to such an extent that the two orders often seemed indistinguishable.

It is indicated that "Her majesty's judges are by nature conservative" but also human & opinionated. Here the admin'ive powers & discretion exercised by British judges & control over them are examined. These powers operate within "fashions & trends of judicial decision" in the field of law, & some of these fashions & trends are delineated under reference to various statutes & laws, as well as individual court cases. Diff's in the interpretation of law arising out of judges' pol'al att's are noted. It is up to the courts to decide how rigorous or flexible is to be their interpretation of what the statute provides & the factors influencing this interpretation are complex. Each individual regards the state sometimes as a force for greater soc justice & sometimes as a force for oppression. In the center of this ambivalence, also looking both ways, stand Her Majesty's judges, often appearing to embody in their decisions the sorts of contradictions which each individual lives in, in terms of his pol'al & personal situations. Within the pol'al & econ system, the judiciary offers as many diff faces to the dilemma of the individual in the state as anyone in society. M. Maxfield.