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Volunteering for a Cause
This thoughtful study challenges a number of widespread assumptions about the role of Catholicism in Mexican history by examining two related Catholic charities: the male Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the Ladies of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. With thousands of volunteers, these lay groups not only survived the liberal reforms of the mid-nineteenth century but thrived, offering educational, medical, and other services to hundreds of thousands of poor people. Arrom stresses the prominence of women among the volunteers, showing the many ways that Catholicism promoted Mexican modernization rather than being an obstacle to it. Moreover, by reinserting religion into public life, these organizations defied the secularizing policies of the Mexican government. By comparing the male and female organizations collectively, the work shows that the relationship between gender, faith, and charity was much more complicated than is usually believed, with devout men and women supporting the Catholic project in complementary ways.
Women Build the Welfare State
In this pathbreaking history, Donna J. Guy shows how feminists, social workers, and female philanthropists contributed to the emergence of the Argentine welfare state through their advocacy of child welfare and family-law reform. From the creation of the government-subsidized Society of Beneficence in 1823, women were at the forefront of the child-focused philanthropic and municipal groups that proliferated first to address the impact of urbanization, European immigration, and high infant mortality rates, and later to meet the needs of wayward, abandoned, and delinquent children. Women staffed child-centered organizations that received subsidies from all levels of government. Their interest ...
Perceptions of Ecclesia
The Latin term 'ecclesia' had a number of different connotations in medieval usage, but several key ideas recur with particular frequency. This study is concerned with the three most common - ecclesia materialis, ecclesia universalis and ecclesia singularis - as they are reflected in sermons written for the feast of church dedication.
L'idea russa
Un’idea percorre la storia della Russia e attraversa i secoli per giungere fino a noi, da Dostoevskij fino a Putin: l’idea dell’eccezionalità della Russia, di un Impero che non è né Occidente né Oriente e che, perciò, può congiungere i due mondi in nome di una sua peculiare forza morale e spirituale. «È ora che io passi alla storia» ha dichiarato Putin a un giornalista russo nel lontano settembre 2013. Non vi sono dubbi che l’obiettivo di Putin sia ricostituire l’Impero russo. Su quali basi, su quali idee, però, si fonda questo disegno, oltre che, naturalmente, sulla forza delle armi? La risposta sta, secondo Bengt Jangfeldt, uno dei maggiori studiosi internazionali di le...
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Sinfonía para un Monstruo
Este libro recopila a doce autores que, desde distintas perspectivas –la crítica académica, el periodismo cultural o el ensayo literario–, se han animado a adentrarse en la espesa selva del "realismo delirante" de Alberto Laiseca (1941-2016). Desde la preocupación por la trayectoria del autor en el campo literario argentino y la actitud de culto hacia su figura "plebeya" y original, pasando por los motivos del novelista atonal y su proyecto creador hiperbólico, el delirio de grandeza, el dictador como artista y la guerra total, hasta las matrices discursivas que cristalizan en Los sorias, su mayor novela y quizás la más extensa escrita en nuestro país, los textos aquí compilados van desglosando los componentes y alcances de uno de los proyectos creadores más complejos de la literatura argentina, así como una de las experiencias estéticas más extravagantes y perturbadoras que puedan encontrarse en la literatura contemporánea.
Migrantes, espectros y malditos
Bernardo Kordon (1915-2002) a pesar de sobrevivir en los márgenes del canon, se ha convertido con el tiempo en una referencia ineludible del realismo argentino. Por sus novelas y sus cuentos desfilan, a veces como decorado y otras como un paisaje intenso, los agitados y fundacionales años del siglo XX. Desangelados, migrantes, fallidos y desgarrados pueblan sus historias, contadas siempre con un claro compromiso, tanto estético como político. En este ensayo Marcelo Britos sistematiza su obra y lo que se ha escrito sobre ella, para después intentar nuevas miradas y caminos de exploración que interpelan y complejizan las afirmaciones críticas sobre un autor que no termina de agotar su maestría.
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