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Title: Hope for the future? The asylum claims of women fleeing sexual violence in Guatemala.
Author: Allison W. Reimann
Publication: University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2009
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania, Law School
Volume: 157Issue: 4Page: 1199(64)

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The parish was the fundamental ecclesiastical institution brought by Spain to the New World, and perhaps even the principal instrument of empire. This pioneering study traces the origins and development of the parishes of a single Central American diocese from conquest to independence. Drawing widely on Guatemalan archive sources, it presents a detailed picture of the colonial church at parish level. During the eighteenth century almost all regular parishes were secularized. This brought to an end the ecclesiastical state within a state: a republic of priests and Indians. Although the Crown had decreed that the Christian faith had to be presented in its purest form, uncontaminated by worldly influences, a system of vested interests sprang up with the first conversions. Viewed in the most prosaic terms, her parochial incomes made the church the greatest business of the colonial period. ... Read more

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Maya Resurgence
Wilson effectively blends a number of theorectical threads to create a moving and powerful image of Maya ethnicity in the late 20th century. ... Read more

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Douglass Sullivan-Gonzlez examines the influence of religionon the development of nationalism in Guatemala during the period18211871, focusing on the relationship between Rafael Carrera and theGuatemalan Catholic Church. He illustrates the peculiar and fascinatingblend of religious fervor, popular power, and caudillo politics thatinspired a multi-ethnic and multiclass alliance to defend the Guatemalannation in the mid-nineteenth century. ... Read more

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Evenhanded and insightful
Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez's Piety, Power, and Politics gives an evenhanded and insightful look into this interesting time in Central American history.His treatment of Rafael Carrera and the leader's tumultous relationship with the Catholic Church obviously represents countless hours of primary source scholarship (as his bibliography attests).All in all the book is engaging and informative, not a bad combination at all in a work of such scholarship.

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This book focuses on the effects of an armed conflict at the village level, and the way in which people in rural communities address the legacy of such a violent past. It discusses in what ways daily relations between people are still influenced by the le ... Read more

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The Politics of the Spirit is a masterful study of the political effects of evangelical Protestantism in Central America. Steigenga's thoughtfully crafted work questions whether the spread of Protestantism in Latin America has reinforced an authoritarian political culture or deepened nascent democracy. Crude conspiracy theories about the specter of conservative corporatist Protestantism and the triumphalist vision of a Protestant reformation as the harbinger of democracy are laid to rest by this balanced critique of the literature of religion and politics in Latin America. Steigenga investigates the impact religious affiliation has on political activity and belief and the power of nondenominational religious beliefs on Latin American life. His comparative work explores how different political systems--the established democracy of Costa Rica and dictatorial Guatemala--impact religious observance. This enlightening interdisciplinary book will appeal to scholars of Latin America seeking to understand the relationship between religion and politics ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Caribbean Update, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2003. The length of the article is 3091 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Investment climate update.(GUATEMALA)
Publication: Caribbean Update (Newsletter)
Date: September 1, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 19Issue: 8Page: NA

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