Convictions of the Soul: Religion, Culture, and Agency in the Central America Solidarity Movement

by Sharon Erickson Nepstad

Book Overview

Many U.S. Christians were profoundly moved by the liberation struggles in Central America in the 1980s. Most learned about the situation from missionaries who had worked in the area and witnessed the repression firsthand. These missionaries, Sharon Erickson Nepstad shows, employed the institutional and cultural resources of Christianity to seize the attention of American congregations and remind them of the moral obligations of their faith. Drawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195169239
• ISBN13: 9780195169232
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"