Rev. William M. Lies, csc

Concurrent Associate Professional Specialist; Executive Director,
Center for Social Concerns
(PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2003)
117 Center for Social Concerns
574-631-3002
email: wlies@nd.edu
http://socialconcerns.nd.edu/about/staff/lies.shtml

Geographic focus: Latin America

Thematic interests: Religion and politics; Pentecostal growth and religious freedom; democratic stability; human rights and justice.

Current research: Latin America’s widening religious freedom; Pentecostal growth and its impact on the Catholic Church’s relationship to the state.

Selected publications: “The Chilean Church: Declining Hegemony?” in Paul Christopher Manuel, Clyde Wilcox, and Lawrence C. Reardon, eds., The Catholic Church and the Nation-State: Comparative Perspectives (2006); “A Clash of Values: Church-State Relations in Democratic Chile,” in Silvia Borzutzky and Lois Hecht Oppenheim, eds., After Pinochet: The Chilean Road to Democracy and the Market (2006).