Activist Faith: Grassroots Women in Democratic Brazil and Chile

by Carol Ann Drogus and Hannah Stewart-Gambino

Book Overview

"An extensive and powerful literature on religion, society, and politics in Latin America in recent years has begun with the assumption that most of the movements that surged in the struggle against military rule are dead, that most of the activists are scattered and burned out, and that the promise of civil society as a source of new values and a new kind of citizenship and political life was illusory. Many have assumed that the religiously inspired...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271025506
• ISBN13: 9780271025506
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"