Download or read book Atlantic Perspectives written by Markus Balkenhol and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of these domains are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places which, despite a common history, are today very different in terms of secular regimes and the presence of religion in the public sphere. Ideally suited to a variety of scholars and students in different fields, Atlantic Perspectives will lead to new debates and conversations throughout the fields of anthropology, religion and history.
Download or read book M xico y sus perspectivas para el siglo XXI written by Barbara Klauke and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indigenous Peoples In Latin America written by Hector Diaz Polanco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the perennial tensions between ethnic groups and the modern nation-state and does so from the perspective of a leading Mexican anthropologist with deep and long experience in these matters. As such, it is both a superb introduction to the basic issues and a presentation of the author's own original contributions. The appearance of this book in English gives North American readers access to these important and political currents in Latin American anthropology and political economy. It is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the current recrudescence of indigenous peoples at this moment in history?when conventional wisdom had predicted its demise.
Download or read book Por Dios yo Los pactos b blicos written by David Pawson and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debe ser desconcertante para muchos cristianos que maestros y predicadores que usan la misma Biblia propongan tantas diferentes interpretaciones y, en especial, aplicaciones de la Palabra de Dios. Una de las principales razones para esta confusión es su manejo de la palabra “pacto”, que es tan fundamental en la Biblia. Las dos preguntas clave son: ¿cuántos pactos ha hecho Dios con los seres humanos? y ¿cuántos de estos se aplican a los cristianos hoy? Hay quienes dicen que hay un solo pacto (“el pacto de gracia”) que recorre toda la Biblia, aunque podrían agregar un segundo pacto (“un pacto de obras”) que se aplicó solo a Adán en el Edén. La mayoría piensa que hay dos (el “antiguo” y el “nuevo”), que corresponden al Antiguo y al Nuevo “Testamento” (un sinónimo de “pacto”). Otros afirman haber encontrado siete (aunque suelen llamarlos “dispensaciones”). Este autor cree que hay cinco que son básicos para la historia de nuestra redención: noético, abrahámico, mosaico, davídico y mesiánico. Solo uno de estos es “antiguo” y, por lo tanto, obsoleto; solo uno es “nuevo”, pero respalda los otros tres. Con esta perspectiva podemos “interpretar rectamente la palabra de verdad” (2 Timoteo 2:15). ¡Vea si está de acuerdo!David Pawson tiene un ministerio de enseñanza mundial, especialmente para líderes de iglesia. Muchos lo conocen a través de programas de radiodifusión cristianos, y es autor de una gran cantidad de libros.
Download or read book Compact of Permanent Union Between Puerto Rico and the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prophet of the Andes written by Graciela Mochkofsky and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable true story of how one Peruvian carpenter led hundreds of Christians to Judaism, sparking a pilgrimage from the Andes to Israel and inspiring a wave of emerging Latin American Jewish communities “If Gabriel García Márquez had written the Old Testament, it might read like Graciela Mochkofsky's staggering true account of a humble Peruvian carpenter's spiritual odyssey from a shack in the Andes, via the Amazon, to the Promised Land of Israel with a community of devoted followers." —Judith Thurman, award-winning author of Isak Dinesen Segundo Villanueva was born in 1927 in a tiny farming village perched in the Andes; when he was seventeen, his father was murdered and Segundo was left with little more than a Bible as his inheritance. This Bible launched Segundo on a lifelong obsession to find the true message of God contained in its pages. He found himself looking for answers outside the Catholic Church, whose hierarchy and colonial roots embodied the gaping social and racial inequities of Peruvian society. Over years of religious study, Segundo explored various Protestant sects and founded his own religious community in the Amazon jungle before discovering a version of Judaism he pieced together independently from his readings of the Old Testament. His makeshift synagogue began to draw in crowds of fervent believers, seeking a faith that truly served their needs. Then, in a series of extraordinary events, politically motivated Israeli rabbis converted the community to Orthodox Judaism and resettled them on the West Bank. Segundo’s incredible journey made him an unlikely pioneer for a new kind of Jewish faith, one that is now attracting masses of impoverished people across Latin America. Through detailed reporting and a deep understanding of religious and cultural history, Graciela Mochkofsky documents this unprecedented and momentous chapter in the history of modern religion. This is a moving and fascinating story of faith and the search for dignity and meaning.
Download or read book Cuban Studies 35 written by Lisandro Prez and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field.
Download or read book The Nirex Collection written by Porfirio R. Solórzano and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Compact of permanent union between Puerto Rico and the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selective Security in the War on Drugs written by Alke Jenss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paramilitaries, crime, and tens of thousands of disappeared persons—the so-called war on drugs has perpetuated violence in Latin America, at times precisely in regions of economic growth. Legal and illegal economy are difficult to distinguish. A failure of state institutions to provide security for its citizens does not sufficiently explain this. Selective Security in the War on Drugs analyzes authoritarian neoliberalism in the war on drugs in Colombia and Mexico. It interprets the “security projects” of the 2000s—when the security provided by the state became ever more selective—as embedded in processes of land appropriation, transformed property relations, and global capital accumulation. By zooming in on security practices in Colombia and Mexico in that decade and juxtaposing the two contexts, this book offers a detailed analysis of the role of the state in violence. To what extent and for whom do states produce order and disorder? Which social forces support and drive such state practices? Expanding the literature on authoritarian neoliberalism and the coloniality of state power—thus linking political economy to postcolonial approaches—the book builds a theoretical lens to study state security practices. Different social groups, enjoying differentiated access to the state, influenced the state discourse on crime to very different extents. Security practices—which oscillated between dispersed organization by a multiplicity of actors and institutionalization with the military—materialized as horrific insecurity for social groups thought of as disposable. In tendency, putting security centerstage disabled dissent. The “security projects” exacerbated contradictions driven by a particular economic model and simultaneously criminalized precisely those that this model had already radically disadvantaged.
Download or read book The New Ideal Worker written by Mireia las Heras Maestro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many managers and organizations still assume that employees who devote long hours to their jobs with no family interference are “ideal workers”. However, this assumption has negative consequences for employees, their families and, more interestingly, for their organizations. This book provides a wealth of empirical evidence from around the globe, as well as innovative conceptual frameworks, to help practitioners and researchers alike to go beyond the classic notion of the “ideal worker” and to rethink what companies actually need from their employees. As it demonstrates, doing so will be beneficial for countless men and women, and for society at large.
Download or read book Alternative Pathways to Sustainable Development Lessons from Latin America written by Gilles Carbonnier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 9th volume of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and related development trajectories in Latin America, with a particular focus on the Andean region. It examines the diverse development narratives and experiences in countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru during a period of high commodity prices associated with robust growth, poverty alleviation and inequality reduction. Highlighting propositions such as buen vivir, this thematic volume questions whether competing ideologies and discourses have translated into different outcomes, be it with regard to environmental sustainability, social progress, primary commodity dependence, or the rights of indigenous peoples. This collection of articles aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them. Contributors include: Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Alberto Acosta, Ana Elizabeth Bastida, Luis Bustos, Humberto Campodónico, Gilles Carbonnier, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara, Fernando Eguren, Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva, Eduardo García, Javier Herrera, Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Robert Muggah, Gianandrea Nelli Feroci, José Antonio Ocampo, Camilo Andrés Peña Galeano, Guillermo Perry, Darío Indalecio Restrepo Botero, Sergio Tezanos Vázquez, and Frédérique Weyer.
Download or read book Democratic Institutional Design written by Brian F. Crisp and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the policy-making structures of Venezuelan government, this book examines the constitutionally allocated powers of the executive and legislature and shows how the powers of each branch are exercised given the incentives established by the electoral system and changing partisan strengths. Several institutional characteristics have led to a passive legislature and an activist chief executive. The advantages presidents enjoy as a result of their constitutional and partisan powers are demonstrated by a wealth of empirical evidence, including records of votes of censure, initiation of legislation, and the use of decree authority. Because of its dominance, the Venezuelan executive branch is the focus of interest-group pressure, which is institutionalized through consultative commissions and a decentralized public administration. The author analyzes memberships of more than 300 advisory commissions and governing boards, revealing the preponderance of posts filled by umbrella agencies for business and labor. The interaction of this limited version of civil society with policy makers in the executive branch has led to a highly protectionist development strategy and excessive government subsidies. The strategy and the political process that made it possible were both exhausted by the end of the 1980s. Venezuela was in political and economic crisis. The author places Venezuela in a comparative context with other Latin American states on three issues: the likelihood that executives will receive disciplined, majority support in the legislature; the constitutional powers of presidents; and the degree to which business and labor are formally incorporated through single peak associations. Participation and policy-making processes vary significantly across Latin American democracies, with few others reaching the level of centralization that has characterized Venezuela. At the other end of the spectrum, some Latin American institutional designs are characterized by diffusion and fragmentation. In conclusion, the author offers a blueprint to modify some of the counterproductive patterns associated with Venezuela, one of the longest-lived but now troubled democracies in Latin America.
Download or read book The Global Innovation Index 2018 written by Cornell University and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Innovation Index 2018 provides detailed metrics about the innovation performance of 126 countries and economies around the world. Its 80 indicators explore a broad vision of innovation, including political environment, education, infrastructure and business sophistication. The GII 2018 analyses the energy innovation landscape of the next decade and identifies possible breakthroughs in fields such as energy production, storage, distribution, and consumption. It also looks at how breakthrough innovation occurs at the grassroots level and describes how small-scale renewable systems are on the rise.
Download or read book TEOLOGIA PREDICTIVA written by Juan Bautista Pérez and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-22 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compendio de reflexiones sobre las profecías biblicas, la segunda venida de Cristo y los eventos que aconteceran en los tiemps del fin
