Liberation theology
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Liberation theology arose in the 1980s in Latin America as an ideological means of resistance for Catholics to resist corrupt and oppressive right-wing regimes. While grounded in Scripture, the ideology tended to be left-leaning in nature and was thus not viewed favorably by the Vatican.