The Nicaraguan Church and the Revolution
Author: Joseph Mulligan
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13:
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Nicaragua, Revolution in the Family
Author: Shirley Christian
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780394744575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJournalist Christian's masterful, evenhanded account of Nicaragua's Sandinistas derives from years of interviews and on-the-scene observations. Beginning with the last days of the Somoza regime, she details the morass of political intrigue through November 1984. The problem is, she argues, that the success of ``sandinismo'' turned the people from instigators of change into objects of change, both in the eyes of the church and of the state. As the center of the struggle flew out of control onto the battlefields of Havana, Washington, Rome, and Panama, democratic principles were subordinated to other peoples' needs, a no-win situation for the peasants. To draw conclusions about Nicaragua, Christian emphasizes, is a lot more difficult than superficial U.S. policy would imply.
Saints and Sandinistas
Author: Andrew Bradstock
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 110
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Catholic Church and Politics in Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Author: Philip J Williams
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1989-02-22
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1349103888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnlike most recent studies of the Catholic Church in Latin America, Philip Williams' book sets out ot analyse the Church in two very dissimilar political contexts - Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Despite the obvious differences, Williams argues that in both cases the Church has responded to social change in a remarkably similar fashion. The efforts of progressive clergy to promote change in both countries has been largely blocked in both hierarchs, fearful that such change will threaten the Church's influence in society. Based on extensive first-hand research, this book is a welcome contribution to the current debate over Central America.
Politics and the Catholic Church in Nicaragua
Author: John M. Kirk
Publisher: Gainesville, Fla : University Press of Florida
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780813011387
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuerrilla-priests and liberation theology are not new phenomena in Nicaragua. Ever since the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores, Catholic Church leaders have played a major role in that country's politics. The result, John Kirk writes, is a polarized church, one with a progressive minority at loggerheads with the conservative hierarchy. Kirk sets each stage of the church-state debate in a historical continuum, then examines the forty-year period of Somocismo and the Sandinista period (1979-90) that followed. This social revolution - blending nationalism, Marxism, and Catholicism - dared to be different, he claims, and accordingly it paid the price. Kirk wrote this book following three trips to Nicaragua during the 1980s, when he witnessed firsthand the social polarization occurring at the time. But the involvement of the Catholic Church in Nicaraguan politics is not exceptional, he says: "Most - if not all - religions are also encumbered with socio-political concerns that go beyond the essentially 'religious.'"
Revolution, Revival, and Religious Conflict in Sandinista Nicaragua
Author: Calvin L. Smith
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789004156456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores Protestant-Sandinista relations in revolutionary Nicaragua, demonstrating how and why most Protestants vigorously opposed the revolution, tracing Sandinista irritation with Pentecostal belief and practice, and identifying how brutal Sandinista repression of Pentecostals led many to join the Contras.
Risking a Somersault in the Air
Author: Margaret Randall
Publisher: New Village Press
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1613321848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst revised edition of interviews with 14 prominent activists whose writings influenced the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution and help us understand present-day Nicaragua Margaret Randall presents a dynamic collection of personal interviews with Nicaragua's most important writer-revolutionaries who played major roles in the 1979 revolution and the subsequent reconstruction. This revised first edition includes a new preface and additional notes that frame the narrative in high relevance to the present day. The featured writer-activists speak of their work and practical tasks in constructing a new society. Among the writers included are Gioconda Belli, Tomás Borge, Omar Cabezas, Ernesto Cardenal, Vidaluz Menéses, Julio Valle-Castillo, and Daisy Zamora. The work also features 50 evocative photographs from the era by Margaret Randall.
Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution
Author: Denis L. D. Heyck
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-04
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 1136636250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution delineates the human dimension of the Nicaraguan conflict, revealing what it is like to live in Nicaragua today. Through conversations with Denis Heyck, twenty Nicaraguans--powerful and powerless, rich and poor, government and oppostion, educated and illiterate--tell their fascinating stories. What emerges is the picture of a shattered society, capturing twin features of Nicaragua's revolutionary experience: idealism and suffering.
A Nicaraguan Exceptionalism?
Author: Hilary Francis
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781908857774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat Went Wrong? The Nicaraguan Revolution
Author: Dan La Botz
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-09-07
Total Pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9004291318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a valuable re-assessment of the Nicaraguan Revolution by a Marxist historian of Latin American political history. It shows that the FSLN (‘the Sandinistas’), with politics principally shaped by Soviet and Cuban Communism, never had a commitment to genuine democracy either within the revolutionary movement or within society at large; that the FSLN’s lack of commitment to democracy was a key factor in the way that revolution was betrayed from the 1970s to the 1990s; and that the FSLN’s lack of rank-and-file democracy left all decision-making to the National Directorate and ultimately placed that power in the hands of Daniel Ortega. Pursuing his narrative into the present, La Botz shows that, once their would-be bureaucratic ruling class project was defeated, Ortega and the FSLN leadership turned to an alliance with the capitalist class.
