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A Revolutionary Faith
Religious commitments can be a powerful engine for progressive social change, and in this new book, Raúl E. Zegarra examines the process of articulation of religious beliefs and political concerns that takes place in religious organizing and activism. Focusing on the example of Latin American liberation theology and the work of Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, Zegarra shows how liberation theology advocates have been able to produce a new balance between faith and politics that advances an agenda of progressive social change without reducing politics to faith or faith to politics. Drawing from theologian David Tracy's method of critical correlation, the book focuses on key historical...
Nonreligious Imaginaries of World Repairing
The world is confronted with multiple intersecting crises including exploitation, inequality, political polarization and climate change. World-repairing work is vitally needed. But just at a time when humans most obviously require robust moral imaginaries on which to draw, it is no longer clear what kinds of beliefs, meanings, stories and encounters inspire them to act. We know that nonreligious identities are on the rise in numerous countries throughout the world. But with so much focus on the “non” part of nonreligion, what we don’t know is what nonreligious imaginaries actually look, sound and feel like. What do nonreligious people believe in? What stories inspire them? In what mome...
Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America
This book analyzes the rise of evangelical Christians in Latin American electoral politics, comparing six Latin American countries.
An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion
What are religion and nonreligion? How do fundamentalism and religious radicalization emerge and grow? How do social class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and other factors affect religious beliefs, practices, and organizations? Is religion a fundamental driving force or do political leaders use religion for their own purposes? In exploring these pertinent questions, An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion provides an overview of sociological theories of contemporary religious life. Theoretical discussion is accompanied by presentations of empirical research from several religious traditions in many parts of the world. The sociology of religion is linked closely to developments in ...
Abortion and Democracy
Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion politics in Latin America’s Southern Cone, with lessons and insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region’s recent history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current democratic agendas. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, the book’s contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes, and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health...
Los derechos de las mujeres. Caminos de libertad
Uno de los signos inequívocos de la violación de los derechos humanos de las mujeres, es la violencia que se ejerce contra ellas ya que al dejarse impunes estos tipos de ataques ─desde sus formas más leves, hasta la violencia feminicida y feminicidios— se vulneran de manera constante sus derechos humanos. Además, vuelven a revictimizarlas cuando denuncian, porque se enfrentan a autoridades que reproducen patrones socioculturales discriminatorios, lo que se suma a la ineficacia de las acciones judiciales (Saucedo, 2011). Los derechos de los que hoy gozamos algunas mujeres se han arrancado uno a uno gracias a la lucha feminista, aunque todavía haya lugares en México y en el mundo don...
La reproducción en cuestión
Deliberar sobre el aborto no siempre ha sido fácil, pero deliberar sobre el aborto desde el Derecho y entre personas que operan en el Derecho ha resultado particularmente difícil en la Argentina. Ante esa dificultad, con la excepción de algunas voces rebeldes, el silencio ha sido la opción de la mayoría de quienes ejercieron roles de liderazgo en las profesiones del Derecho, incluso varias décadas después de 1983. En los últimos años, este silencio extendido se ha ido desarmando de la mano de voces feministas, profesionales de la salud y del Derecho, integrantes de organizaciones de derechos humanos, universidades y un largo etcétera. Desde distintas perspectivas, nuevas y viejas a...
Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America
An understanding of law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of "rule of law" which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that recognize the diversity of situations and contexts characterizing the region. The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America presents cutting-edge analysis of the central theoretical and applied areas of enquiry in socio-legal studies in the region by leading figures in the study of law and society from Latin America, North America and Europe. Contributors argue that scholarship about Latin America has made vital contributions to longstanding and emerging theoretical and methodological d...
Formas de creer en la ciudad
El presente libro busca analizar la experiencia urbana y la religiosa para comprender su interacción fluida y compleja. Por medio de la geografía de ciudades de Argentina, Brasil, España, Estados Unidos, Francia y México establece sus coordenadas analíticas en el espacio público de la ciudad industrial, de las periferias, el barrio y la frontera. Las diversas formas de creer en la ciudad que se emplazan en esta obra ponen en juego las identidades, la memoria y la ciudadanía en distintas escalas espaciales, considerando tanto la pertenencia como la desafiliación religiosa. Asimismo, revelan diversas maneras de hacer frente a contextos de vulnerabilidad, precariedad o exclusión, como los marcados por la migración, las violencias y el género.
Pope Francis and the Transformation of Health Care Ethics
"In June 2018 the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) released the sixth edition of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERD). The ERD seeks to provide ethical guidelines, grounded in moral law, Church teaching, and canon law, to guide Catholic institutions in their provision of health care. This book presents a critical commentary on the revised ERD, arguing that the ERD is problematic in a number of ways. First, it continues to prioritize a rules-based, over a person-centered, approach, with an emphasis on absolute norms that proscribe particular acts. Second, the authors argue that the sex-abuse scandal and its cover-up has fundamentally...
