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Activist Faith: Grassroots Women in Democratic Brazil and Chile
Auflage
1
Ort / Verlag
State College: Penn State University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2005
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
"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
activism of that period left little lasting impact, but hardly
anyone has actually looked at the activists themselves to see what
remains, how they cope in a different, more open environment, and
how they see and act on the present and future.
Activist Faith addresses these issues with a wealth of
empirical detail from two key cases and with a richly
interdisciplinary argument that draws on theorizing about social
movements. The authors strive to understand what sustains activism
and movements in radically different circumstances from those in
which they arose. Their analysis is enriched by systematic
attention to the impact of gender and gender-related issues on
activism and movements. In the process, they shed much needed light
on the fate of the activists and social movements that rose to
prominence throughout Latin America during the 1980s.
This beautifully written book is a major achievement that gives
us analytical tools for studying how movements and activists
survive in the doldrums and when a cycle of protest peaks and
societies move on."-Daniel H. Levine, University of Michigan