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Religion Without Redemption: Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America
Luis Martinez Andrade
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Description for Religion Without Redemption: Social Contradictions and Awakened Dreams in Latin America
hardcover. A synoptic composition of Latin American philosophy of liberation and contemporary de-colonial thinking. Series: Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KL; HRA; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 222 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
Latin America has been a place of radical political inspiration providing an alternative to the neoliberal model. Religion without Redemption looks at the sociology of religion, political philosophy and the history of ideas of the continent, in an attempt to show how Western understanding fails to come close to a correct analysis of how and why political and economic characteristics work as they do.
It focuses on how the centrality of religion for the people of Latin America has influenced how they interact with the changes in the modern economic system. Capitalism has taken on religious characteristics: ... Read more
Latin America has been a place of radical political inspiration providing an alternative to the neoliberal model. Religion without Redemption looks at the sociology of religion, political philosophy and the history of ideas of the continent, in an attempt to show how Western understanding fails to come close to a correct analysis of how and why political and economic characteristics work as they do.
It focuses on how the centrality of religion for the people of Latin America has influenced how they interact with the changes in the modern economic system. Capitalism has taken on religious characteristics: ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745335742
SKU
V9780745335742
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About Luis Martinez Andrade
Luis Martinez Andrade is a Mexican essayist, with a PhD in sociology from EHESS in Paris. In 2009 he received the internationally acclaimed Thinking Against the Mainstream essay award in Havana. He is the author of Religion Without Redemption (Pluto, 2015).
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