Religious responses to violence : human rights in Latin America past and present

Religious responses to violence : human rights in Latin America past and present /

Though its societies and economies have undergone sweeping changes, high levels of violence have remained a persistent problem in Latin America. This book offers resources to understand how religion has perceived and addressed different forms of violence, from the political and state violence of the...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Wilde, Alexander (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2016
Subjects:
Human rights > Latin America.
Church and social problems > Latin America.
Human rights > Latin America > Religious aspects.
Civil rights > Latin America.
Freedom of religion > Latin America.
Human rights > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Violence > Latin America.
Violence > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The evolution of the theory and practice of rights in Latin American Catholicism / Daniel H. Levine
  • 2. Violence and everyday experience in early twentieth-first-century Latin America / Robert Albro
  • Part I. Rethinking religious contributions to human rights
  • 3. Human rights and Christian responsibility: transnational Christian activism, human rights, and state violence in Brazil and Chile in the 1970s / Patrick William Kelly
  • 4. Church responses to political violence in Central America: from liberation theology to human rights / Virginia Garrard-Burnett
  • 5. The institutional church and pastoral ministry: unity and conflict in the defense of human rights in Chile / Alexander Wilde
  • 6. Violent times: Catholicism and dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s / María Soledad Catoggio
  • 7. Transformations in Catholicism under political violence: Córdoba, Argentina, 1960-1980 / Gustavo Morello
  • 8. Religion meets legal strategy: Catholic clerics, lawyers, and the defense of human rights in Brazil / Rafael Mafei Rabelo Queiroz
  • Part II. Contemporary ministries responding to violence
  • 9. Building peace and dignity: Jesuit engagement in Colombia's Magdalena Medio / Elyssa Pachico
  • 10. From preaching to listening: extractive industries, communities, and the church in rural Peru / Javier Arellano-Yanguas
  • 11. Violence and pastoral care in Putumayo, Colombia / Winifred Tate
  • 12. Violence, religion, and institutional legitimacy in northern Central America / Robert Brenneman
  • 13. The politics of presence: evangelical ministry in Brazilian prisons / Andrew Johnson
  • 14. "Fui migrante y me hospedaron": the Catholic Church's responses to violence against Central American migrants in Mexico / Amelia Frank-Vitale
  • 15. From guns to God: mobilizing evangelical Christianity in Urabá, Colombia / Kimberly Theidon.

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