"Multi-authored, highly sophisticated volume on history of religious institutions and policies in the Caribbean covers four salient themes: the Catholic Church and Spanish colonialism, the churches (Catholic and Protestant) and slavery, the churches and the decolonization process, and relations between the churches and the dictatorial governments supported by the US (Batista of Cuba, Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, and Duvalier of Haiti). Authors often combine findings of published monographs with their own research in primary documents"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.