Consecuencias politício-jurídicas del protestantismo
Consecuencias politício-jurídicas del protestantismo

Author: Ayuso, Miguel

Publisher: Marcial Pons

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 8491238026

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Al acercarse la fecha de los quinientos años de la Protesta de Lutero, en el cercano 2017, se hacía necesario estudiar su influjo político y jurídico. Máxime cuando todo apunta a que se prepara una verdadera celebración, incluso en ambientes «católicos», más que propiamente una conmemoración. El lector consciente, así pues, podrá acudir a estas páginas (y a no muchas más) para esclarecer una serie de temáticas decisivas de la experiencia político-jurídica contemporánea donde las premisas luteranas (y a fortiori calvinistas) se muestran tan particularmente netas como deletéreas las consecuencias. El volumen, que responde a un diseño y a una ejecución orgánicos, y que constituye por tanto un libro escrito a varias manos y no solamente una recopilación miscelánea, recoge las actas de las V Jornadas Hispánicas de Derecho Natural, celebradas entre los días 27 y 29 del pasado mes de abril en la Universidad Anáhuac México Norte, y organizadas por el Consejo de Estudios Hispánicos «Felipe II» con la colaboración de la sección mexicana de la Unión Internacional de Juristas Católicos.

Witchcraft and Welfare
Witchcraft and Welfare

Author: Raquel Romberg

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2009-05-21

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0292774605

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Persecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities. Combining trance, dance, magic, and healing practices with expertise in the workings of the modern welfare state, they help lawyers win custody suits, sick employees resolve labor disability claims, single mothers apply for government housing, or corporation managers maximize their commercial skills. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among practicing brujos, this book presents a masterful history and ethnography of Puerto Rican brujería (witch-healing). Raquel Romberg explores how brujería emerged from a blending of popular Catholicism, Afro-Latin religions, French Spiritism, and folk Protestantism and also looks at how it has adapted to changes in state policies and responded to global flows of ideas and commodities. She demonstrates that, far from being an exotic or marginal practice in the modern world, brujería has become an invisible yet active partner of consumerism and welfare capitalism.

Latin American Responses to Globalization in the 21st Century
Latin American Responses to Globalization in the 21st Century

Author: M. Nilsson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-11

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 113700312X

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Written by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners from Latin America, the US and Europe and taking into consideration the recent global financial crisis,the book offers a multifaceted insight into the expectations as well as the possible threats related to Latin America's incorporation into the sphere of global interconnectedness.

Multiple InJustices
Multiple InJustices

Author: R. Aída Hernández Castillo

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0816532494

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R. Aída Hernández Castillo synthesizes twenty-four years of research and activism among indigenous women's organizations in Latin America, offering a critical new contribution to the field of activist anthropology and for anyone interested in social justice.

Child of All Nations
Child of All Nations

Author: Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1996-05-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 110161532X

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In Child of All Nations, the reader is immediately swept up by a story that is profoundly feminist, devastatingly anticolonialist—and full of heartbreak, suspense, love, and fury. Pramoedya immerses the reader in a world that is astonishing in its vividness: the cultural whirlpool that was the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. A story of awakening, it follows Minke, the main character of This Earth of Mankind, as he struggles to overcome the injustice all around him. Pramoedya's full literary genius is evident in the brilliant characters that populate this world: Minke's fragile Mixed-Race wife; a young Chinese revolutionary; an embattled Javanese peasant and his impoverished family; the French painter Jean Marais, to name just a few.