Summary
This book examines the recent phenomenon in Latin America of national Truth and Reconciliation commissions. Few studies have examined the role of Churches or religion in political processes that proclaim valued theological terms as their agenda - truth, forgiveness, and reconciliation. This book questions the role of religion, specifically of established Churches. The impact of such reconciliation commissions on Indigenous Native Americans is also examined, as is the role of women and how both Commissions and Churches or religions were challenged by their experiences. The contributors offer differing perspectives on one or more national truth and reconciliation processes and thus offer a collection that serves as valuable source for the disciplines of Religious Studies, Ethics, Theology, Political Science, Social Sciences and Women's Studies.
Table of Contents
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Introduction |
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PART I: NATIONS AND RECONCILIATION |
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Truth and Reconciliation: Hope for the Nations or Only as Much as is Possible? |
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The Mesa de Dialogo and the Fate of the Disappeared in Chile 1999--2000: National Forgiveness Without Political Truth? |
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41 | (16) |
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Unspeakable Violence: The UN Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Guatemala |
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57 | (28) |
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The Maya `Greening Road' and Reconciliation: The Pan-Maya Movement in Guatemala |
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85 | (26) |
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Reinventing Life and Hope: Coming to Terms with Truth and Reconciliation Brazilian Style |
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111 | (24) |
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PART II: CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS RECONCILIATION |
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The Theme of Reconciliation in Theology in Latin America |
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135 | (36) |
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Social Sin: Social Reconciliation? |
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171 | (22) |
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PART III: NATIONS AND CHURCHES IN THE FUTURE |
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Living in the Wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Retroactive Reflection |
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Truth and Reconciliation: From Chile to South Africa |
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207 | (18) |
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Reconciliation as a Contested Future: Decolonization as Project or Beyond the Paradigm of War |
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225 | (22) |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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