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

Ever for the reason that Max Weber began an issue in regards to the function 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) financial customers. this day, many wonder if the "explosion" of Protestantism in Latin the US will impact an analogous wave of progress and democratization.

Media, Memory, and Human Rights in Chile

Sorensen investigates the style during which Chilean media and public tradition talk about human rights violations devoted through the dictatorship of normal 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 basically defeat a left-wing, progressive insurgency but in addition break Mayan groups and tradition. The Mayan Indians within the western highlands have been classified via the govt as innovative sympathizers, and lots of Mayan girls misplaced husbands, sons, and different relatives 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 worthwhile and distinctive research of overseas, normally American, suggestions to Latin American larger schooling, To Export growth offers an figuring out of the 'what' and the 'why' of overseas relief to a key region. This booklet might be a vintage in its box. " —Philip G. Altbach, Monan Professor of upper schooling, Boston College"Professor Daniel C.