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View ArticleA thicket with many thorns
Adrian Hearn makes a fruitful foray into Cuban civil society and uncovers amid the foliage some healthy shoots Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development Adrian H Hearn 2008, Duke University Press...
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Searching for Africa in Brazil Stefania Capone 2010, Duke University Press 317 pages THIS IS an important contribution to the study of syncretic worship in Brazil, for it suggests that there is no...
View ArticleA Flock Divided: Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749-1857
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John Lynch’s exceptional history of religion in Latin America and the Caribbean explores the millennial tension between tradition and modernity
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Relations between Mexico's state and the Church in the decades following the Revolution were much more complex than many histories have given us to believe
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Liberation theologian Otto Maduro invoked the oppressed to use knowledge against injustice
View ArticleThe saint who haunts an empire
By tracing the plot to kill Óscar Romero and those involved, Matt Eisenbrandt adds to the pressure on the US to make amends for its role propping up El Salvador's murderous regime
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