SCM Press 06/29/2007 Paperback Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

ISBN10: 033404023X, ISBN13: 9780334040231, [publisher: Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd] Softcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 033404023X, ISBN13: 9780334040231, [publisher: Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd] Softcover The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
[Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 033404023X, ISBN13: 9780334040231, [publisher: SCM Press] Softcover Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.
[Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 033404023X, ISBN13: 9780334040231, [publisher: SCM Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - The History and Politics of Latin American Theology explores the contribution of major Latin American theologians to contemporary politics. Within the Latin American context there has been a rediscovery of a fluid and sometimes contradictory relationship between the practice of religion and the practice of politics. Those with religious belief, living in that context, were forced to respond a crisis in politics, whereby their own beliefs, practices, and waylife were pushed to the limit by human rights violations and absolutist forms of government. Responses varied widely - from the confrontation against the state in Chile, to the dissenting silence in Argentina. The historical relations between Church and state have been well documented, but with the advent of democratic governments and the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe those narratives were given less attention by theologians around the globe. However, the basic relations between religion and politics, those relations outlined by pioneers of liberation theology, such as Gutiérrez, became a manifesto for religious believers facing contemporary problems both in Latin America and the Third World - contemporary problems of land ownership, the neo-liberal economic conquest of the Third World, the oppression of women, the destruction of rainforests, global warming, ...
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