Author: Margaret Chowning
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691264570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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"Historians have long looked to networks of elite liberal and anti-clerical men as the driving forces in Mexican history over the course of the long nineteenth century. This traditional view, writes Margaret Chowning, cannot account for the continued power of the Catholic Church in Mexico, which has withstood extensive and sustained political opposition for over a century. How, then, must the scholarly consensus change to better reflect Mexico's history? In this book, Chowning shows that the church repeatedly emerged as a political player, even when liberals won elections, primarily because of the overlooked importance of women in politics. Catholic women kept the church alive through the wars of independence and made it into the political force it continues to be in present-day Mexico. Using archival sources from ten Mexican states, the book shows how women, who were denied the vote and expected to stay out of the political sphere, nevertheless forged their own form of citizenship through the church. After Mexico gained its independence in 1821, women self-consciously developed new lay associations and assumed leadership roles within them. These new associations not only kept Catholicism vibrant, they also pushed women into public sphere. Methodologically, this book shows the value of exploring gender in political and religious history and reveals the equal importance of informal political power to more formal activities like voting"--
Author: Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195355350
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Based on a decade of field research, this work is the first book-length, scholarly examination in English of the role of Catholicism in Mexican society since the 1970s through 1995, and the increasing political activism of the Catholic church and clergy. It is also the first analysis of church-state relations in Latin America that incorporates detailed interviews of numerous bishops and clergy and leading politicians about how they see each other and how religion influences their values. It is also the first analysis of the Mexican Catholic Church which uses national survey research to examine Mexican attitudes toward religion, Christianity, and Catholicism, and provides the first inside look at the decision-making process of bishops at the diocesan level.
Author: University of Santo Tomás
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Author: David Pawson
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Debe ser desconcertante para muchos cristianos que maestros y predicadores que usan la misma Biblia propongan tantas diferentes interpretaciones y, en especial, aplicaciones de la Palabra de Dios. Una de las principales razones para esta confusión es su manejo de la palabra “pacto”, que es tan fundamental en la Biblia. Las dos preguntas clave son: ¿cuántos pactos ha hecho Dios con los seres humanos? y ¿cuántos de estos se aplican a los cristianos hoy? Hay quienes dicen que hay un solo pacto (“el pacto de gracia”) que recorre toda la Biblia, aunque podrían agregar un segundo pacto (“un pacto de obras”) que se aplicó solo a Adán en el Edén. La mayoría piensa que hay dos (el “antiguo” y el “nuevo”), que corresponden al Antiguo y al Nuevo “Testamento” (un sinónimo de “pacto”). Otros afirman haber encontrado siete (aunque suelen llamarlos “dispensaciones”). Este autor cree que hay cinco que son básicos para la historia de nuestra redención: noético, abrahámico, mosaico, davídico y mesiánico. Solo uno de estos es “antiguo” y, por lo tanto, obsoleto; solo uno es “nuevo”, pero respalda los otros tres. Con esta perspectiva podemos “interpretar rectamente la palabra de verdad” (2 Timoteo 2:15). ¡Vea si está de acuerdo!David Pawson tiene un ministerio de enseñanza mundial, especialmente para líderes de iglesia. Muchos lo conocen a través de programas de radiodifusión cristianos, y es autor de una gran cantidad de libros.
Author: Charles A. Witschorik
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1620327171
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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"This book uses a gender perspective to examine sermons and other officially endorsed discourses of the Catholic Church in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Mexico City. Analyzing the different ways that, over time, gendered images, metaphors, and hagiographical examples were used in sermons and other documents, the book examines how the church negotiated challenges to its cultural and ideological hegemony. Beginning with sermons from the early eighteenth century, the author follows the evolution of church discourses as preachers reveled in Baroque analogies, embraced ideals of the Enlightenment, targeted women's alleged moral vices at times of political crisis, and ultimately turned to notions of women as ""the devout sex"" in order to combat incipient liberalism. Put another way, liberals after independence were not the only ones to assert a kind of ""republican motherhood"": preachers countered with a vision of ""Catholic motherhood"" that had great resonance in Mexico even into the twentieth century."
Author: Philip Russell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136968288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 809
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The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through the election of 2006 and its aftermath. The book offers a straightforward chronological survey of Mexican history from the pre-colonial times to the present, and includes a glossary as well as numerous tables and images for comprehensive study. For additional information and classroom resources please visit The History of Mexico companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/russell.
Author: Fernando Díaz-Plaja
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
ISBN: 1626165262
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Students of Spanish language and culture can now benefit from a text that provides them with an understanding of contemporary Spanish history and society while refining their knowledge of the language and expanding their vocabulary. La España que sobrevive (originally published in Madrid in 1987) explores the aftermath of the Franco era in Spain. It presents an objective and nonpartisan, yet humorous and affectionate, view of the important aspects of contemporary Spanish history and society. Topics include the transition to democracy; regionalism and nationalism; key players in current affairs; important institutions such as the monarchy, military, and the church; sexual mores; culture; the media; and politicized approaches to Spanish history. For this edition, William W. Cressey has edited Fernando Díaz-Plaja's text to make it accessible to English-speaking students at an advanced level of Spanish reading skills. Cressey has also added study aids to the book—vocabulary and footnotes, glosses on proper names, questions for discussion, notes on grammar and rhetoric, and exercises. The study aids are gradually phased out, so that the final chapter is presented as stand-alone reading without any supplementary materials. Cressey's adaptation of Díaz-Plaja's highly respected work provides an alternative to literary sources for foreign language instruction—a new resource for teaching foreign languages across the curriculum and instruction through content. Bridging the gap between the fairly simple intermediate readers and texts written for adult native speakers, this book can serve as either a supplementary or main text in the advanced study of language or history, or in preparation for study abroad. La España que sobrevive is a practical tool for teaching not only the language but also the many facets of modern Spanish culture.
Author: María Teresa Vizcaíno López
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557627583
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 300
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Author: Jeffrey Klaiber
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606089471
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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No book in any language equals The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America for its comparative breadth. Historians, social scientists, and general readers will cull from it the conditions needed for the church to play a positive and creative role in furthering human rights and democracy. -John A. Coleman, SJ Loyola Marymount University Jeffrey Klaiber's book offers a wonderfully informative history of the Church's role in Latin American struggles to defend human rights and achieve democracy. Anyone who has followed with concern and interest these recent struggles-from military dictatorships in Brazil and Chile, through the violent conflicts in Central America, to the most recent struggles in Chiapas, Mexico-will find this remarkably comprehensive study of eleven different nations an invaluable text. -Arthur F. McGovern, SJ University of Detroit This volume provides readers with the first comprehensive view of the church during a defining period of Latin American history. This is an invaluable study by a longtime and astute observer. -Edward L. Cleary, OP Providence College A compelling account of the role of the church during the dictatorships and internal wars in eleven countries of Latin America . . . by an eminent historian. -Gerald H. Anderson Director of Overseas Ministries Study Center
Author: Rafael Velazquez-Flores
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030995739
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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This book explores Mexico's foreign policy using the ‘principled pragmatism’ approach. It describes and explains main external actions from the country’s independence in the nineteenth century to Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s administration. The principal argument is that Mexico has resorted to principled pragmatism due to geographic, historical, economic, security, and political reasons. In other words, the nation uses this instrument to deal with the United States, defend national interests, appease domestic groups, and promote economic growth. The key characteristics of Mexico’s principled pragmatism in foreign policy are that the nation projects a double-edged diplomacy to cope with external and domestic challenges at the same time. This policy is mainly for domestic consumption, and it is also linked to the type of actors that are involved in the decision-making process and to the kind of topics included in the agenda. This principled pragmatism is related to the nature of the intention: principism is deliberate and pragmatism is forced; and this policy is used to increase Mexico’s international bargaining power.
