Socialist Thought a Documentary History

By: Albert Fried

Book Overview

A groundbreaking study of the contemporary encounter between Catholic missionaries and Aymara Indians in highland Bolivia, this book is the first ethnography to focus both on the evangelizers and the evangelized. Elucidating the workings of that original global institution, the Catholic Church, Andrew Orta explores the pastoral shift away from liberation theology that dominated Latin American missionization up until the mid-1980s to the recent "theology of inculturation."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0000CMEO5
• ISBN13: 9780385016384
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Best introduction to Socialism available anywhere.

I have to say that for once I have no problem whatsoever in giving a book a five star rating. This book delivers and delivers and delivers. It's nothing less than a great survey of all of socialist thought which means that in this book you'll find many extremely thought provoking essays by authors that are very out of print and hard to come by. If your just getting interested in socialism and you really want to find a 'reader' that won't rip you off go no further. Note:the one section that's deficient is the Marx/Engels section. There are plenty of good M & E readers out there so don't despair. Anyways, one of the secrets of this book which is the argument put forth that M & E are very, very far from being the be all and end all of socialism. Enjoy!