This is a wide-ranging and fascinating dialogue on religion and revolution. This is an updated reissue of a classic document, exploring the relationship between revolution and religion and revealing a fascinating insight into the man behind the beard. The product of an intimate 23-hour dialogue between Fidel Castro and Brasilian liberation theologist Frei Betto, "Fidel and Religion" was a Simon & Schuster bestseller in the 1980s. Newly translated, with previously unseen photographs and a foreword by Armando Hart, this version represents a welcome return for a classic that not only offers telling insights into the ways in which religion and revolution feed and diverge from each other, but delivers a rare portrait of Castro's formative years. Castro speaks candidly about his views on religion and his education in elite Catholic colleges, his conversation with Betto taking on the larger aspect of a historic dialogue between the two most powerful forces for social change in human history. In Castro and Betto's conversation, the communion between these two forces is such that in 1992 it was used as the basis for the Cuban Communist Party's decree that members who practised religious faiths could be accepted - and, in 1999, it paved the way for Pope John Paul II's historic visit to the country.