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

Ever when you consider that Max Weber all started an issue concerning the position of Protestantism in jump-starting northern Europe's monetary improvement, students have clashed over the impression of faith and tradition on a society's (or an individual's) monetary clients. at the present time, many wonder if the "explosion" of Protestantism in Latin the US will influence an analogous wave of development and democratization.

Media, Memory, and Human Rights in Chile

Sorensen investigates the way within which Chilean media and public tradition talk about human rights violations devoted through 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 overdue Nineteen Seventies and the mid-1980s, the folks of Guatemala have been subjected to a state-sponsored crusade of political violence and repression designed not to purely defeat a left-wing, innovative insurgency but in addition smash Mayan groups and tradition. The Mayan Indians within the western highlands have been categorized through the govt as progressive sympathizers, and lots of Mayan girls misplaced husbands, sons, and different family 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 particular research of overseas, customarily American, information to Latin American larger schooling, To Export growth offers an knowing of the 'what' and the 'why' of international relief to a key quarter. This e-book can be a vintage in its box. " —Philip G. Altbach, Monan Professor of upper schooling, Boston College"Professor Daniel C.