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Challenges to Legal Theory offers the reader a fascinating journey through a variety of multi-disciplinary topics, ranging from law and literature, and law and religion, to legal philosophy and constitutional law. The collection reflects some of the challenges that the field of legal theory currently faces. It is compiled by a selection of international and Spanish scholars, whose essays are made available in English translation for the first time. The volume is based on a collection of essays, published in Spanish, in honour of Professor José Iturmendi Morales, of Complutense University, Madrid, and brings the rich scholarship of pre-eminent Spanish scholars of law and legal theory to an international audience.
Thomas F. McGann Memorial Prize, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies, 2004 Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2003 In their efforts to impose colonial rule on Nueva Vizcaya from the sixteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth, Spaniards established missions among the principal Indian groups of present-day eastern Sinaloa, northern Durango, and southern Chihuahua, Mexico—the Xiximes, Acaxees, Conchos, Tepehuanes, and Tarahumaras. Yet, when the colonial era ended two centuries later, only the Tepehuanes and Tarahumaras remained as distinct peoples, the other groups having disappeared or blended into the emerging mestizo culture of the northern fron...
La finalidad de este libro es familiarizar al estudiante de grado, y también de posgrado, con aspectos fundamentales de la escritura académica. El fin último es contribuir al desarrollo de su competencia comunicativa y, en concreto, de las destrezas de expresión escrita.
“El hombre que salvó a Dios” es el resultado polvoriento de la excavación en las esencias de mi vida, en la de las vidas de los demás, en la razón de nuestro mundo y en la de todo el universo. De por qué somos tan importantes como para que el Hijo de Dios viniera a vivir entre nosotros. Muestra los tesoros que he encontrado. Refleja la inquietud permanente por nuestra, más o menos consciente, participación en una guerra entre el bien y el mal, que jamás conocerá un ganador. Todo ello narrado con momentos biográficos que permiten conocer al autor, a la vez que prender una vela dentro de la cegadora envolvente de la rutina de cada día. Refleja, en resumen, ese tránsito de nuestra alma, que es la vida, desde antes de ser elegidos para nacer, hasta lo que nuestra vida habrá hecho con ella y que termina ante el apasionante salto al desconocido precipicio del vértigo de la nuestra muerte y la desaparición de nuestro mundo y de toda la humanidad.
The subject of missions-formal efforts at religious conversion of native peoples of the Americas by colonizing powers-is one that renders the modern student a bit uncomfortable. Where the mission enterprise was actuated by true belief it strikes the modern sensibility as fanaticism; where it sprang from territorial or economic motives it seems the rankest sort of hypocrisy. That both elements-greed and real faith-were usually present at the same time is bewildering. In this book seven scholars attempt to create a "new" mission history that deals honestly with the actions and philosophic motivations of the missionaries, both as individuals and organizations and as agents of secular powers, an...
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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