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"Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor" represents Leonardo Boff's most
systematic effort to date to link the spirit of liberation theology
with the urgent challenge of ecology. Focusing on the threatened
Amazon of his native Brazil, Boff traces the ties that bind the
fate of the rain forests with the fate of the Indians and the poor
of the land. In this book, readers will find the keys to a new,
liberating faith.
In a series of clear, short chapters, Leonardo Boff unpacks the
mysteries of Trinitarian faith, showing why it makes a difference
to believe that God is communion rather than solitude. Instead of
God as solitary ruler standing above a static universe, Christian
belief in the Trinity means that at the root of everything there is
movement, an eternal process of life, outward movement, and love.
Boff shows how the Holy Trinity is, among other things, the
image of the perfect community and the image of the church in its
ideal form: not a hierarchy of power, but a community of diverse
gifts and functions.
Ideal for study or personal reflection.
Between 2010 and 2025, most of the countries of Latin America will
commemorate two centuries of independence, and Latin Americans have
much to celebrate at this milestone. Most countries have enjoyed
periods of sustained growth, while inequality is showing modest
declines and the middle class is expanding. Dictatorships have been
left behind, and all major political actors seem to have accepted
the democratic process and the rule of law. Latin Americans have
entered the digital world, routinely using the Internet and social
media. These new realities in Latin America call for a new
introduction to its history and culture, which Latin America at 200
amply provides. Taking a reader-friendly approach that focuses on
the big picture and uses concrete examples, Phillip Berryman
highlights what Latin Americans are doing to overcome extreme
poverty and underdevelopment. He starts with issues facing cities,
then considers agriculture and farming, business, the environment,
inequality and class, race and ethnicity, gender, and religion. His
survey of Latin American history leads into current issues in
economics, politics and governance, and globalization. Berryman
also acknowledges the ongoing challenges facing Latin Americans,
especially crime and corruption, and the efforts being made to
combat them. Based on decades of experience, research, and travel,
as well as recent studies from the World Bank and other agencies,
Latin America at 200 will be essential both as a classroom text and
as an introduction for general readers.
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Feet-on-the-Ground Theology (Paperback)
Clodovis Osm Boff; Translated by Phillip Berryman; Foreword by Aloisio Lorsheider
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Between 2010 and 2025, most of the countries of Latin America will
commemorate two centuries of independence, and Latin Americans have
much to celebrate at this milestone. Most countries have enjoyed
periods of sustained growth, while inequality is showing modest
declines and the middle class is expanding. Dictatorships have been
left behind, and all major political actors seem to have accepted
the democratic process and the rule of law. Latin Americans have
entered the digital world, routinely using the Internet and social
media. These new realities in Latin America call for a new
introduction to its history and culture, which Latin America at 200
amply provides. Taking a reader-friendly approach that focuses on
the big picture and uses concrete examples, Phillip Berryman
highlights what Latin Americans are doing to overcome extreme
poverty and underdevelopment. He starts with issues facing cities,
then considers agriculture and farming, business, the environment,
inequality and class, race and ethnicity, gender, and religion. His
survey of Latin American history leads into current issues in
economics, politics and governance, and globalization. Berryman
also acknowledges the ongoing challenges facing Latin Americans,
especially crime and corruption, and the efforts being made to
combat them. Based on decades of experience, research, and travel,
as well as recent studies from the World Bank and other agencies,
Latin America at 200 will be essential both as a classroom text and
as an introduction for general readers.
Since the arrival of the Spanish in the sixteenth century, the
Maya population of Guatemala has been forced to adapt to
extraordinary challenges. Under colonial rule, the Indians had to
adapt enough to satisfy the Spanish while resisting those changes
not necessary for survival, applying their understanding of the
world to the realities they confronted daily. Despite the major
changes wrought in their way of life by centuries of submission,
the Maya have managed to regenerate, and thus maintain, their
self-identity.
Among the major challenges they have faced has been the
imposition of outside religions. Quiche Rebelde examines what
happened when Accion Catolica came into the Guatemalan municipio of
San Antonio Ilotenango, Quiche, to convert its inhabitants.
Ricardo Falla, a Guatemalan Jesuit priest and anthropologist,
analyzes the movement's origins and why some people became part of
it while others resisted. He shows how religion was used as another
tool to readapt to the changing environment--natural, economic,
political, and social. His work is the first major empirical study
of how change occurred in a Maya community with no serious loss of
Maya identity--and how the process of conversion is related to more
general processes of cultural change that actually strengthen
ethnic identity.
Berryman writes against the background of the rise of "megacities"
- the sprawling urban centers that are the home of most of Latin
America's population. In that context he contrasts Sao Paulo and
Caracas. The Catholic Archdiocese of Sao Paulo, under Cardinal Arns
and progressive Catholics, was a major point of resistance to
military dictatorship. It is also a city in which Protestant
Pentecostal churches especially have enjoyed explosive growth.
Berryman's sure-footed feel for what is happening gives the reader
a concrete feel for what is happening in both Protestant and
Catholic communities. Caracas, Berryman shows, is a very different
kind of megacity, one that a Protestant missionary called "the
Secular City", a place where the relative wealth and consumer
lifestyle make it hard for the Gospel to take hold. Catholic and
Protestant churches in Caracas face challenges quite different from
those of Sao Paulo. Religion in the Megacity explores those
similarities and differences within the respective cities and
between them. Berryman breaks new ground in showing the way in
which Catholics and Protestants face similar situations, and he
does so in a dynamic, readable style that gives the reader insights
from knowledgeable men and women on the ground who show that facile
stereotypes about what is happening in Latin America today need to
be corrected.
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