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A Flock Divided
Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Catholicism, as it developed in colonial Mexico, helped to create a broad and remarkably inclusive community of Christian subjects, while it also divided that community into countless smaller flocks. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, Matthew D. O’Hara describes how religious thought...
Modern Inquisitions
Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
Trying to understand how “civilized” people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes Arendt’s...
Paper Cadavers
The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Paper Cadavers, an inside account of the astonishing discovery and rescue of Guatemala's secret police archives, Kirsten Weld probes the politics of memory, the wages of the Cold War, and the stakes of historical knowledge production. After Guatemala's bloody thirty-six years of civil war (1960–1996),...
Archive Stories
Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2006
Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or...
Religion and Poverty
Pan-African Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
A Ghanaian scholar of religion argues that poverty is a particularly complex subject in traditional African cultures, where holistic worldviews unite life’s material and spiritual dimensions. A South African ethicist examines informal economies in Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, and South Africa, looking...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 1992
Sainted Women of the Dark Ages makes available the lives of eighteen Frankish women of the sixth and seventh centuries, all of whom became saints. Written in Latin by contemporaries or near contemporaries, and most translated here for the first time, these biographies cover the period from the fall...
Muslim Becoming
Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Khan contends that Pakistan inherited an aspirational, always-becoming Islam, one with an open future and a tendency toward experimentation....
by William R. Hutchison
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
This landmark study of American religion, recipient of the National Religious Book Award in 1976, is being brought back into print with an updated bibliography. The Modernist Impulse in American Protestantism traces the history of American Protestant thought from the early part of the nineteenth century...
Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism
Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887–1934
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
In Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism, Edward Wright-Rios investigates how Catholicism was lived and experienced in the Archdiocese of Oaxaca, a region known for its distinct indigenous cultures and vibrant religious life, during the turbulent period of modernization in Mexico that extended from the...
Between Colonialism and Diaspora
Sikh Cultural Formations in an Imperial World
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
Bringing South Asian and British imperial history together with recent scholarship on transnationalism and postcolonialism, Tony Ballantyne offers a bold reevaluation of constructions of Sikh identity from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first. Ballantyne considers Sikh communities...
The Extractive Zone
Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In The Extractive Zone Macarena Gómez-Barris traces the political, aesthetic, and performative practices that emerge in opposition to the ruinous effects of extractive capital. The work of Indigenous activists, intellectuals, and artists in spaces Gómez-Barris labels extractive zones—majority...
Everynight Life
Culture and Dance in Latin/o America
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 1997
The function of dance in Latin/o American culture is the focus of the essays collected in Everynight Life. The contributors interpret how Latin/o culture expresses itself through dance, approaching the material from the varying perspectives of literary, cultural, dance, performance, queer, and feminist...
Cachita's Streets
The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban national identity. Jalane D. Schmidt shows how groups as diverse as Indians and African slaves, Spanish colonial officials, Cuban independence soldiers, Catholic authorities and laypeople, intellectuals,...
Nihil Obstat
Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Nihil Obstat—Latin for "nothing stands in the way"—examines the interplay between religion and politics in East-Central Europe and Russia. While focusing on the postcommunist, late twentieth century, Sabrina P. Ramet discusses developments as far back as the eleventh century to explain...