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In The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935) Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti provides a lucid synthesis of the Catholic Church’s responses to the secularisation of the State and society whilst offering a fresh appraisal of the emergence of Social Catholicism and its contribution to social thought and development of civil society in post-independence Peru. Making use of diverse historical sources, Cubas provides a comprehensive view of a reformist yet anti-revolutionary trend within the Peruvian Church that, decades before the emergence of Liberation Theology and under divergent intellectual paradigms, developed an active agenda that addressed the new social problems of the country, including those of urban workers, and of indigenous populations.
Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix to which the Church belonged. Missionary movements to Latin America coincided with visions for a progressive, radically transformative church. Landscapes of Liberation expands scholarship into liberation theology’s reception in Andean America and critically examines the interplay of the Catholic Church as a global institution with parishes as local actors. Through source material from both sides of the Atlantic, this book charts how a transnational network of pastoral agents and laypeople in Peru’s southern highlands claimed mission and development as intertwined tenets of spiritual and social life throughout three decades of agrarian reform, activism, and social conflict. Ultimately, this book reveals how transformative theories for rural development yield contingent transformations: concrete change, yet contested liberation.
Exploring the links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its regulation in Peru. Scholars and students interested in Latin American history, the history of gender and sexuality, and the history of medicine and public health will find Drinot's study engaging and thoroughly researched.
Looking beyond prominent figures or major ecclesial events, Liberation Theology and the Others offers a fresh historical perspective on Latin American liberation theology. Thirteen case studies, from Mexico to Uruguay, depict a vivid picture of religious and lay activism that shaped the profile of the Latin American Catholic Church in the second half of the 20th century. Stressing the transnational character of Catholic activism and its intersections with prevalent discourses of citizenship, ethnicity or development, scholars from Latin America, the US, and Europe, analyze how pastoral renewal was debated and embraced in multiple local and culturally diverse contexts. Contributors explore th...
Very little has been written on the impact of the European revolutions of 1848 on the Americas. Nevertheless, their influence, particularly in the case of France, as palpable. The revolutions of 1848 renewed and extended democratic vocabulary and republican symbolism from Canada to Chile. This collection looks at the catalytic effect of Europe's 'springtime of the peoples' in the Americas, prompting the disenfranchised to demand representative institutions and to conceive of themselves as sovereign people, and giving rise to radical and progressive liberal parties - the Free Soil Movement/Free Democrats in the United States, the Reform Liberals in Mexico, the 'progresista' liberal parties in Colombia and Peru, the 'Society of Equality' and the Radical Party in Chile - that challenged the political groupings that had served since Independence.
En 1865, un bombardeo a Valparaíso por fuerzas enemigas era una posibilidad remota, al modo de una terrible pesadilla que se desvanecía en los cálculos más sensatos. Pero en 1866 la escuadra española dejó sus huellas en los edificios públicos y los cerros de un Valparaíso consciente, aunque casi agonizante ante tamaña ignominia. En esta obra Cedric Purcell nos regala un Valparaíso tan glorioso como infernal, páginas en las que por su pluma, así como por el ojo y la mano de tantos artistas, revivimos el drama y la gloria del Puerto singular en una de sus horas más ejemplares, extracto del prólogo del Doctor en derecho, historiador y autor chileno Gonzalo Rojas Sánchez.
La Patria Nueva pretendió marcar un punto de quiebre y reinició de la vida republicana peruana. Inserto en procesos globales de modernización capitalista, fue un periodo de importantes cambios sociales, políticos y culturales. Sin embargo, más allá de la retórica, también existieron sorprendentes continuidades, que nos obligan a reevaluar el gobierno de Leguía y a considerar tanto sus antecedentes como sus consecuencias y legados.
This volume investigates a galaxy of diverse networks and intellectual actors who engaged in a broad political environment, from conservatism to the most radical right, between the World Wars. Looking beyond fascism, it considers the less-investigated domain of the 'Latin space', which is both geographical and cultural, encompassing countries of both Southern Europe and Latin America. Focus is given to mid-level civil servants, writers, journalists and artists and important 'transnational agents' as well as the larger intellectual networks to which they belonged. The book poses such questions as: In what way did the intellectuals align national and nationalistic values with the project of cr...
China's growing economic involvement in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America has been a source of major controversy. The official Chinese position maintains that the growth of bilateral relations is of mutual benefit and provides a good example of South-South cooperation. Critics on the other hand see the economic relations between China and other developing countries as highly unequal with most of the benefits accruing to China and a few local elites. They also point to negative socio-economic, political, and environmental consequences. How China is Reshaping the Global Economy: Development Impacts in Africa and Latin-America throws more light on these controversies through a comparative st...
Em Novembro de 1940, poucos meses depois da invasão da Dinamarca, um círculo conservador liderado por um empresário propôs ao rei que se estabelecesse um regime autoritário em moldes corporativos, que amiúde remeteria para o ditador português, António Salazar, e o seu Estado Novo. Em 1941, um jornalista do The New York Times visitou dez países latino-americanos e escreveu um artigo a expressar as suas preocupações a respeito das simpatias católicas para com o corporativismo, as ditaduras e mesmo o fascismo, por todo o continente. Conclui que «repetidamente, ouvia-se de padres e leigos de toda a América Latina a opinião de que a ditadura de Salazar em Portugal era um Estado qua...