Secretos medievales

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

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Este libro ofrece el primer estudio histórico integral sobre la teología de la liberación en Ecuador. Al indagar más allá del llamado »Obispo de los Indios« (L. Proaño), la obra desmitifica las narrativas dominantes sobre el activismo católico postconciliar en los Andes. Este estudio, a partir de la investigación de archivo y la historia oral, explora los entrelazamientos entre el catolicismo progresista latinoamericano, el activismo religioso local, y la formación del movimiento indígena. Repensar la Revolución del Poncho arroja nuevas luces sobre las expresiones locales de un...

Desde 1492, el continente americano -las Indias, el Nuevo Mundo o Cuarta Pars, como se le llamó durante más de un siglo- quedó unido al Occidente europeo, como consecuencia del impulso expansivo que, de un siglo atrás, experimentaban las monarquías ibéricas. La historia del continente quedó desde entonces estrechamente ligada a la de Europa, y allí se trasladaron las dos formas de la cultura cristiano-occidental en que quedó dividido el viejo continente tras la reforma protestante: la de base mediterránea -latina, católica y barroca-, y la anglosajona protestante-calvinista. La...