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“gustavo morello”

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  • Lived Religion in Latin America

    An Enchanted Modernity

    by Gustavo Morello, S.J. ...
    What does the practice of religion look like in Latin American today? In this book, which examines religious practice in three Latin American cities-- Lima, Perú; Córdoba, Argentina; and Montevideo, Uruguay-- Gustavo Morello reveals the influence of modernity on average citizens' cultural practices. Technological development, the dynamics of capitalism, the specialization of spheres of knowledge-- ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War

    by Gustavo Morello, SJ ...
    On August 3rd, 1976, in Córdoba, Argentina's second largest city, Fr. James Week and five seminarians from the Missionaries of La Salette were kidnapped. A mob burst into the house they shared, claiming to be police looking for "subversive fighters." The seminarians were jailed and tortured for two months before eventually being exiled to the United States. The perpetrators were part of the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a point dramatized by the rapid growth of other religious movements in Brazil—particularly Protestant ... Read more

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  • Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City"

    Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

    by Alcira Duenas ...
    Through newly unearthed texts virtually unknown in Andean studies, Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" highlights the Andean intellectual tradition of writing in their long-term struggle for social empowerment and questions the previous understanding of the "lettered city" as a privileged space populated solely by colonial elites. Rarely acknowledged in studies of resistance to colonial ... Read more

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  • Mixtec Evangelicals

    Globalization, Migration, and Religious Change in a Oaxacan Indigenous Group

    by Mary I. O'Connor ...
    Mixtec Evangelicals is a comparative ethnography of four Mixtec communities in Oaxaca, detailing the process by which economic migration and religious conversion combine to change the social and cultural makeup of predominantly folk-Catholic communities. The book describes the effects on the home communities of the Mixtecs who travel to northern Mexico and the United States in search of wage labor ... Read more

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  • Pope Francis in His Own Words

    Edited by Julie Schwietert Collazo, Lisa Rogak ...
    The moment the identity of the newly elected 266th pontiff was revealed, it was clear to the thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square, and to the watching world, that this pope was different in fascinating and exciting ways — the first from Latin America, the first Jesuit, and the first to take the name Francis, in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. When Pope Francis, formerly Cardinal Jorge Mario ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Latina/o Theologies

    Edited by Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre, Dr. Edwin David Aponte ...
    Handbook of Latino/a Theologies explores the varied theological, ecclesiastical, spiritual, and cultural expressions associated with the term 'Latino/a or Hispanic theology.' There is no single definition of Hispanic/Latino theology, but rather a multiplicity of perspectives within the diverse Latino/a communities that articulate a distinctive and relevant Hispanic viewpoint. This collection of ... Read more

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  • Santa Muerte: The History and Rituals of the Mexican Folk Saint

    by Renata Lopez ...
    Discover The History and Rituals of The Saint of DeathSanta Muerte is responsible for protection, healing, and safe passage to the afterlife for those who venerated her in life. This deity has significantly grown in popularity over the past few decades, much to the dismay of the Catholic Church, Mexican government, and other official bodies. You can see her now in many places in Mexico with ... Read more

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  • Shamans of the Foye Tree

    Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche

    by Ana Mariella Bacigalupo ...
    Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts.To Mapuche shamans, or machi, the foye tree is of special importance, not only for its medicinal ... Read more

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  • Streetwalking

    LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic

    by Ana-Maurine Lara ...
    Series series Critical Caribbean Studies
    Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association)Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders ... Read more

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  • Invaders as Ancestors

    On the Intercultural Making and Unmaking of Spanish Colonialism in the Andes

    by Peter Gose ...
    Series series Anthropological Horizons
    Since pre-Incan times, native Andean people had worshipped their ancestors, and the custom continued even after the arrival of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. Ancestor-worship however, did not exclude members of other cultures: in fact, the Andeans welcomed outsiders as ancestors. Invaders as Ancestors examines how this unique cultural practice first facilitated Spanish colonization and ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds

    Religion and Modernity in a Transnational K'iche' Community

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    Series series IMS Culture and Society
    Indigenous Bodies, Maya Minds examines tension and conflict over ethnic and religious identity in the K’iche’ Maya community of San Andrés Xecul in the Guatemalan Highlands and considers how religious and ethnic attachments are sustained and transformed through the transnational experiences of locals who have migrated to the United States.Author C. James MacKenzie explores the relationship among ... Read more

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