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The internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "short course in Christianity," founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing how American Christians have privileged the individual religious experience and downplayed denominational and theological differences in favor of a common identity as renewed people of faith, Kristy Nabhan-Warren focuses on cursillistas--those who have completed a Cursillo weekend--to show how their experiences are a touchstone for understanding these trends in post-1960s American Christianity. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork as well as historical research, Nabhan-Warren shows the importance of Latino Catholics in the spread of the Cursillo movement. Cursillistas' stories, she argues, guide us toward a new understanding of contemporary Christian identities, inside and outside U.S. borders, and of the importance of globalizing American religious boundaries.
Composé au Pérou à la fin du XVIe siècle par le jésuite espagnol José de Acosta, le récit de la Peregrinación de Bartolomé Lorenzo raconte, à l’aide des procédés caractéristiques du roman d’aventures, le périple accompli par un jeune portugais sur les routes et dans les marges de l’Amérique espagnole jusqu’à son incorporation dans la Compagnie de Jésus à Lima vers 1570. Le récit d’Acosta, bien qu’il ait été tiré de l’oubli et ait été placé au nombre des précurseurs du roman hispano-américain par la critique postcoloniale latino-américaine, reste largement méconnu des historiens de la littérature. En outre, les éditions du récit qui ont fait autor...
The Unheard Voice of Law in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias reinterprets Las Casas’s controversial treatise as a legal document, whose legal character is linked to civil and ecclesial genres of the Early Modern and late Renaissance juridical tradition. Bartolomé de las Casas proclaimed: "I have labored to inquire about, study, and discern the law; I have plumbed the depths and have reached the headwaters." The Unheard Voice also plumbs the depths of Las Casas’s voice of law in his widely read and highly controversial Brevísima relación—a legal document published and debated since the 16th century. This original reinterpretation of hi...
La obra de los cronistas, mezcla entre diarios de guerras de conquista y novelas caballerescas, es una pieza vital en el entendimiento del camino léxico recorrido por la lengua española desde 1592. Cada una de las crónicas es un tesoro de palabras que han pervivido en diferentes zonas hispanoamericanas, en España, y en otras lenguas europeas. Lamentablemente, Bartolomé de las Casas ha sufrido la apatía de los filólogos, justificada por su polémica obra, llena de exacerbaciones, narraciones escalofriantes de abusos a los indios, denuncias irritadas ... A la "Historia de las Indias", su más documentada y extensa obra, y a su léxico indígena dedicamos este estudio. Allí Las Casas se...