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Globalization, Urbanization, and the State
Comprises ten papers on the impact of globalization and neoliberal policies on economic development in Latin America between 1982 and 1990.
North American Homeland Security
Did 9/11 revive a North American guns-butter trade-off? Established in the largest administrative overhaul since World War II, the Department of Homeland Security was charged with keeping the United States safe within a wider security community, but confronted the Washington Consensus-based Western Hemisphere free trade movement, beginning with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and extending to the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in 2003, to materialize a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) compact. Whether 9/11 restrictions impeded these trade-related thrusts or not, embracing neoliberalism permitted Canada and Mexico to pursue their own initiatives, such as p...
A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas
A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas argues that we cannot understand religion in the Americas without understanding its marginalized communities. Despite frequently voiced doubts among religious studies scholars, it makes the case that theology, and particularly liberation theology, is still useful, but it must be reframed to attend to the ways in which religion is actually experienced on the ground. That is, a liberation theology that assumes a need to work on behalf of the poor can seem out of touch with a population experiencing huge Pentecostal and Charismatic growth, where the focus is not on inequality or social action but on individual relationships with the divine. By...
Beyond Missionaries
Although many consider Central America a thoroughly Catholic region, Protestant organizations based in the United States began in the 1970s to send missionaries to Latin America in a concerted effort to convert Catholics to Protestantism. In this penetrating analysis of the social and political implications of Protestantism, focusing particularly on the fast-growing Pentecostal groups, Hallum provides a thorough overview of this complex phenomenon.
Essential Readings on Political Terrorism
This collection of articles offers views on terrorism by leading thinkers in political science, sociology, psychology, and the health sciences. Key issues include biological, chemical, and nuclear threats; the conflict between security and freedom; the sociological nature of terrorist groups; American terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber; governmental counter-terrorism policy; determinants of state involvement in international terrorism; militant cultures and philosophies; the internet as a terrorist medium; and posttraumatic stress disorder and related psychiatric reactions to terrorist violence.
We Will Not be Stopped
The power of the Bible to transform lives and societies has seldom been demonstrated more vividly than in Chiapas in southern Mexico. Beginning in the early 1940s, young men and women of the Summer Institute of Linguistics devised written scripts and then translated the Bible into the languages of the most neglected and most oppressed of indigenous peoples: the Tzeltals, Tzotzils, Chols and Tojolabals. A major part of this book is the narrations of indigenous people who experienced the Bible's power to heal bodies and create loving families. They became apostles, seeding new congregations. They refused to accept what they saw as idols made by human hands and rejected the cults of village sai...
Transitional Development and Attitudinal Changes in Society
The attitude concept is the widely acclaimed means of sociologists and psychologists for the analysis of emperical research used in the analysis of related theories and generalizations. Rapid changes in attitudes have been taking place in the recent decades due to the fast pace of economic development.
