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Book Trazos de Cristo en Am  rica Latina

Download or read book Trazos de Cristo en Am rica Latina written by Jorge Costadoat and published by Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado. This book was released on 2010 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Qué significa creer en Dios hoy? ¿Qué significa creer hoy en Dios en América Latina? En esta publicación destaca la figura de Jesucristo como intérprete del Dios verdadero. Él merece fe porque creyó en el Dios que opta por los pobres. Destaca, a la vez, Alberto Hurtado como intérprete de Cristo. “El pobre es Cristo”, clama el santo, anticipando el rumbo de la práctica y de la reflexión cristianas post-conciliares. Jorge Costadoat S.J., es teólogo, Director del Centro Teológico Manuel Larraín, Profesor de la Facultad de Teología de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, coordinador de la Comisión teológica de la Compañía de Jesús en América Latina, y capellán de la Comunidad cristiana Enrique Alvear de Peñalolén.

Book Religion  Torture and the Liberation of God

Download or read book Religion Torture and the Liberation of God written by Mario I Aguilar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If God can be used by the powerful to justify violence in the name of order, he can also be used by the weak to illuminate the position of the victims of political conflict. Religion, Torture and the Liberation of God explores the theological possibilities of a God who is a prisoner and a victim of torture. The book relocates God to the horrors of the military abuse of human rights in Chile and the systematic rape of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Aguilar argues that this theological exercise offers us new ways of understanding the abuse of power, whether it be the clerical abuse of children, violence against women, or homophobia. This examination of torture and rape becomes, through a theology of praxis and compliance, an examination of solidarity, love and affection. The book concludes with an exploration of the possibilities of a tortured God who liberates.

Book Trazos de cristo en Am  rica Latina

Download or read book Trazos de cristo en Am rica Latina written by Jorge Costadoat Carrasco and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lived Religion  Pentecostalism  and Social Activism in Authoritarian Chile

Download or read book Lived Religion Pentecostalism and Social Activism in Authoritarian Chile written by Joseph Florez and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Giving Life to the Faith, Joseph Florez offers an account of Pentecostal activism and the search for a new interpretation of Christian social responsibility during the extraordinary circumstances of everyday life during the Chilean dictatorship.

Book The Life and Death of Democracy

Download or read book The Life and Death of Democracy written by John Keane and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it poses along the way some tough and timely questions: can we really be sure that democracy had its origins in ancient Greece? How did democratic ideals and institutions come to have the shape they do today? Given all the recent fanfare about democracy promotion, why are many people now gripped by the feeling that a bad moon is rising over all the world's democracies? Do they indeed have a future? Or is perhaps democracy fated to melt away, along with our polar ice caps? The work of one of Britain's leading political writers, this is no mere antiquarian history. Stylishly written, this superb book confronts its readers with an entirely fresh and irreverent look at the past, present and future of democracy. It unearths the beginnings of such precious institutions and ideals as government by public assembly, votes for women, the secret ballot, trial by jury and press freedom. It tracks the changing, hotly disputed meanings of democracy and describes quite a few of the extraordinary characters, many of them long forgotten, who dedicated their lives to building or defending democracy. And it explains why democracy is still potentially the best form of government on earth -- and why democracies everywhere are sleepwalking their way into deep trouble.

Book Biography of a Mexican Crucifix

Download or read book Biography of a Mexican Crucifix written by Jennifer Scheper Hughes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, Jennifer Scheper Hughes traces popular devotion to the Cristo Aparecido over five centuries of Mexican history. Each chapter investigates a single incident in the encounter between believers and the image.

Book Puerto Rico in the American Century

Download or read book Puerto Rico in the American Century written by César J. Ayala and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the island residents, who experience an unusual and daily conundrum: they consider themselves a distinct people but are part of the American political system; they have U.S. citizenship but are not represented in the U.S. Congress; and they live on land that is neither independent nor part of the United States. Highlighting both well-known and forgotten figures from Puerto Rican history, Ayala and Bernabe discuss a wide range of topics, including literary and cultural debates and social and labor struggles that previous histories have neglected. Although the island's political economy remains dependent on the United States, the authors also discuss Puerto Rico's situation in light of world economies. Ayala and Bernabe argue that the inability of Puerto Rico to shake its colonial legacy reveals the limits of free-market capitalism, a break from which would require a renewal of the long tradition of labor and social activism in Puerto Rico in connection with similar currents in the United States.

Book CIDOC informa

Download or read book CIDOC informa written by Centro Intercultural de Documentación and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De Los Nombres de Cristo

Download or read book De Los Nombres de Cristo written by Luis de León and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Painting a New World

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donna Pierce
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2004-05-01
  • ISBN : 0914738496
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Painting a New World written by Donna Pierce and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The little-known story of viceregal Mexico is told by an international team of scholars whose work was previously available only piecemeal or not at all in English. Much of their research was undertaken especially for this volume."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Colonial System Unveiled

Download or read book The Colonial System Unveiled written by Baron de Vastey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first translation into English of 'Le Système colonial dévoilé', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject.

Book Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World

Download or read book Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World written by Ilona Katzew and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing discussion of the myriad depictions of the indigenous people of Mexico and Peru in colonial times

Book Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism

Download or read book Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism written by Marlene L. Daut and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti’s Baron de Vastey.

Book LEV

Download or read book LEV written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Juan de la Rosa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nataniel Aguirre
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1999-04-29
  • ISBN : 0199938873
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Juan de la Rosa written by Nataniel Aguirre and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-04-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.

Book A People Called Episcopalians

Download or read book A People Called Episcopalians written by John H. Westerhoff III and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A straightforward, easy-to-understand introduction to the Episcopal Church. What are we as Episcopalians? This concise booklet explores five main areas of Episcopal life: identity, authority, spirituality, temperament, and polity. A great introduction to the Episcopal way of thinking in readable prose for any newcomer or seeker in the Episcopal Church who may wonder what makes Episcopalians different than Roman Catholics or other protestants.