WEEK 14: Religion, Political Mobilization, and Civil Society

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REQUIRED
  • Daniel Levine, "From Church and State to Religion and Politics and Back Again," World Affairs, Fall 1987, 150 (2):93-108.

  • Thomas C. Bruncan and W. E. Hewitt, "Patterns of Church Influence in Brazil's Political Transition," Comparative Politics, October 1989, 22 (1):39-62.

  • Madeleine Adriance, "Base communities and rural mobilization in northern Brazil," Sociology of Religion Summer 1994, 55 (2):163-188.

  • James C. Cavendish, "Christian base communities and the building of democracy: Brazil and Chile," Sociology of Religion, Summer, 1994, 55 (2):179-95.

  • Bryan T. Froehle, "Religious competition, community building, and democracy in Latin America: grassroots religious organizations in Venezuela," Sociology of Religion, Summer 1994, 55 (2):145-62.

  • Christian Smith, "The Spirit and Democracy: Base Communities, Protestantism, and Democratization in Latin America," Sociology of Religion, Summer, 1994, 55 (2):119-43.

  • Edwin Eloy Aguilar, Jose Miguel Sandoval, Timothy J. Steigenga, and Kenneth Coleman, "Protestantism in El Salvador: Conventional Wisdom versus Survey Evidence," Latin American Research Review, 1993, 28 (2): 119-41.

  • Newton J. Gaskill, "Rethinking Protestantism and democratic consolidation in Latin America," Sociology of Religion, Spring, 1997, 58 (1):69-91.

  • Jean-Pierre Bastian, "The Metamorphosis of Latin American Protestant Groups: A Sociohistorical Perspective," Latin American Research Review, Spring, 1993, 28 (2):33-61.

  • Susan C. Stokes, "Politics and Latin America's Urban Poor: Reflections from a Lima Shantytown," Latin American Research Review, 1991, 26 (2):75-99.
RECOMMENDED
  • Teresa Carrilo, "Women and Independent Unionism in the Garment Industry," in Joe Foweraker and Ann L. Craig, eds., Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico (Boulder, CO: Lynne Riener, 1990), p. 213-33.

  • Scott Mainwaring, "Urban Popular Movements, Identity, and Democratization in Brazil," Comparative Political Studies, July 1987, 20 (2):131-54.

  • Wayne A. Cornelius, "Urbanization and Political Demand-Making: Political Participation among the Migrant Poor in Latin American Cities," American Political Science Review, September 1974, 68 (3):1125-46.

  • Leilah Landin, "Nongovernmental Organizations in Latin America," World Development, Special Supplement, 1987 (15):29-37.

  • Joe Foweraker, "Social Movements and Citizenship Rights in Latin America," in Menno Vellinga, ed., The Changing Role of the State in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998), p. 271-97.

  • Arturo Escobar and Sonia E. Alvarez, eds., The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992), p. 1-8, 317-29.

  • Joe Foweraker, Theorizing social movements (Boulder: Pluto Press, 1995), p. 24-114.

  • Leigh A. Payne, "Brazilian Business and the Democratic Transition: New Attitudes and Influence," in E. Bartell and Leigh A. Payne, eds., Business and Democracy in Latin America (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 1995), p. 217-56.

  • Ben Ross Schneider, "Organized Business Politics in Democratic Brazil," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Winter 1997-98, 39 (4):95-127.

  • Francisco Durand and Eduardo Silva, Organized business, economic change, and democracy in Latin America (Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center Press, c1998).

  • June Nash, "Cultural Resistance and Class Consciousness in Bolivian Tin-Mining Communities," in Susan Eckstein, ed., Power and Popular Protest (Berekeley: Unversity of California Press, 1989), p. 182-202.

  • Kevin J. Middlebrook, "Union Democratization in the Mexican Automobile Industry: An Appraisal," Latin American Research Review, 1989, 24 (2):69-94.

  • Heather Williams, Planting trouble: the Barzon debtors' movement in Mexico (La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, c1996).

  • Jane S. Jaquette, ed., The women's movement in Latin America: participation and democracy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).

  • Lynn Stephen, Women and Social Movements in Latin America: Power from Below (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997), p. 1-26, 158-94, 243-60.
LITERARY OVERLAY
  • Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude OR The Other Mexico in The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1985).

 

Views of San Pedro de Alcantara in Chile, woman selling pictures of the Virgin Mary, and Oscar Arnulfo Romero (center), former Archbishop of San Salvador. He was killed in 1980.

 

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