Reconciliation, nations and churches in Latin America / / edited by Iain S. MacLean.
This book examines the recent phenomenon in Latin America of national Truth and Reconciliation commissions. Few studies have examined the role of Churches or religion in political processes that proclaim valued theological terms as their agenda: truth, forgiveness, and reconciliation. The contributo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Abingdon, Oxon : : Routledge,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Notes: | First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART I: NATIONS AND RECONCILIATION; 1. Truth and Reconciliation: Hope for the Nations or Only as Much as is Possible?; 2. The Mesa de Diálogo and the Fate of the Disappeared in Chile 1999-2000: National Forgiveness Without Political Truth?; 3. Unspeakable Violence: The UN Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Guatemala; 4. The Maya 'Greening Road' and Reconciliation: The Pan-Maya Movement in Guatemala; 5. Reinventing Life and Hope: Coming to Terms with Truth and Reconciliation Brazilian Style; PART II: CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS RECONCILIATION
- 6. The Theme of Reconciliation in Theology in Latin America7. Social Sin: Social Reconciliation?; PART III: NATIONS AND CHURCHES IN THE FUTURE; 8. Living in the Wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Retroactive Reflection; 9. Truth and Reconciliation: From Chile to South Africa; 10. Reconciliation as a Contested Future: Decolonization as Project or Beyond the Paradigm of War; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z