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

Ever due to the fact Max Weber begun an issue concerning the function of Protestantism in jump-starting northern Europe's financial improvement, students have clashed over the impact of faith and tradition on a society's (or an individual's) monetary customers. this day, many wonder if the "explosion" of Protestantism in Latin the US will influence the same wave of development 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 overdue 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 in addition damage Mayan groups and tradition. The Mayan Indians within the western highlands have been categorized via the govt. as innovative sympathizers, and plenty of Mayan girls 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 precise research of international, typically American, suggestions to Latin American better schooling, To Export growth offers an figuring out of the 'what' and the 'why' of international relief to a key region. This booklet may be a vintage in its box. " —Philip G. Altbach, Monan Professor of upper schooling, Boston College"Professor Daniel C.