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Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 61
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
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In Defence of the Faith
Recounting an insider's perspective of the turbulent historical currents of late eighteenth-century Brazil.
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women’s daily lives and their opportunities for marriage, education, and religious practice were sharply circumscribed throughout the colonial period. Yet these same documents also provide evocative glimpses of the religious beliefs and practices that were especially cherished or independently developed by women for their own use, constit...
Agents of Orthodoxy
The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this new study, based on extensive archival research, James E. Wadsworth challenges these myths by focusing on the lay and clerical officials who staffed the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, one of Brazil's oldest, wealthiest, and most populated colonies. He argues that the Inquisition was an integral part of colonial society and that it reflected and reinforced deeply held social and religious value...
A (re)construção da mulher contemporânea
Quem é a mulher contemporânea? É a mulher que reflete e age de forma contrária ao senso comum. É aquela que enxerga e tenta minimizar as problemáticas que envolvem o universo feminino enraizadas na nossa sociedade patriarcal. Aquela que "mete a colher" em assunto de marido e mulher. É a que não deixa uma amiga ir para casa sozinha. A mulher que decide não ter filhos ou não se casar. É a mãe solo. Aquela que está nos espaços de produção científica e combate à invisibilidade da mulher na ciência. É a mulher que sabe da inexistência de limite de idade para entrar na Universidade ou estar em qualquer espaço. A que não vivencia as problemáticas enfrentadas pelas mulheres n...
Liberdade Religiosa
O estudo sobre a formação e o desenvolvimento da Liberdade Religiosa acaba por confundir-se com o próprio estudo sobre a formação e o desenvolvimento do Estado Constitucional. Nesse sentido, publico esta obra com o intuito de analisar essa intrigante relação entre a Igreja e o Estado ao longo da história, bem como o debate sobre as questões controversas envolvendo a Liberdade Religiosa, na atualidade. Na primeira parte do presente trabalho, realizo um estudo sobre as origens da religião e a sua influência no Estado na Antiguidade, na Idade Média e na Idade Moderna, analisando também o surgimento do Cristianismo. Em seguida, adentro no estudo da Liberdade Religiosa nos Estados Un...
Imperialism and Science
A unique resource that synthesizes existing primary and secondary sources to provide a fascinating introduction to the development and dissemination of science within history's great empires, as well as the complex interaction between imperialism and scientific progress over two centuries. Imperialism and Science is a scholarly yet accessible chronicle of the impact of imperialism on science over the past 200 years, from the effect of Catholicism on scientific progress in Latin America to the importance of U.S. government funding of scientific research to America's preeminent place in the world. Spanning two centuries of scientific advance throughout the age of empire, Imperialism and Science sheds new light on the spread of scientific thought throughout the former colonial world. Science made enormous advances during this period, often being associated with anti-Imperialist struggle or, as in the case of the science brought to 19th-century China and India by the British, with Western cultural hegemony.
