<p>The Catholic Church in Pará , by Carujo, invites the reader to an immersion in the history of the religious institution in this State, from Colonial Brazil to the 21st Century. The author unveils the multiple facets of the Church s role in the region. The reader is guided from the arrival of the first missionaries and the complex relationship with the indigenous peoples, through the consolidation of Pará identity in the 19th Century, to the tr...