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The Soul of Development: Biblical Christianity and Economic Transformation in Guatemala (Religion in America)

Ever considering Max Weber all started an issue concerning the position of Protestantism in jump-starting northern Europe's monetary improvement, students have clashed over the impact of faith and tradition on a society's (or an individual's) fiscal customers. this present day, many wonder if the "explosion" of Protestantism in Latin the United States will impact an identical wave of development and democratization.

Media, Memory, and Human Rights in Chile

Sorensen investigates the style within which Chilean media and public tradition speak about human rights violations dedicated throughout the dictatorship of basic Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) in addition to human rights difficulties which nonetheless exist.

Fear as a Way of Life

Among the past due Nineteen Seventies and the mid-1980s, the folk of Guatemala have been subjected to a state-sponsored crusade of political violence and repression designed not to in simple terms defeat a left-wing, innovative insurgency but additionally break Mayan groups and tradition. The Mayan Indians within the western highlands have been categorized by means of the govt. as innovative sympathizers, and plenty of Mayan ladies misplaced husbands, sons, and different kinfolk who have been brutally murdered or who easily "disappeared.

To Export Progress: The Golden Age of University Assistance in the Americas (Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies)

"An immensely precious and designated research of overseas, quite often American, tips to Latin American better schooling, To Export development presents an knowing of the 'what' and the 'why' of overseas reduction to a key area. This publication should be a vintage in its box. " —Philip G. Altbach, Monan Professor of upper schooling, Boston College"Professor Daniel C.