Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
List of Illustrations xiii
Preface and Acknowledgments xv
Introduction Alexander Wilde 1
Chapter 1 The Evolution of the Theory and Practice of Rights in Latin American Catholicism Daniel H. Levine 27
Chapter 2 Violence and Everyday Experience in Early Twenty-First-Century Latin America Robert Albro 63
Part I Rethinking Religious Contributions to Human Rights
Chapter 3 Human Rights and Christian Responsibility Transnational Christian Activism, Human Rights, and State Violence in Brazil and Chile in the 1970s Patrick William Kelly 95
Chapter 4 Church Responses to Political Violence in Central America: From Liberation Theology to Human Rights Virginia Garrard-Burnett 123
Chapter 5 The Institutional Church and Pastoral Ministry: Unity and Conflict in the Defense of Human Rights in Chile Alexander Wilde 159
Chapter 6 Violent Times: Catholicism and Dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s Maria Soledad Catoggio 191
Chapter 7 Transformations in Catholicism under Political Violence: Córdoba, Argentina, 1960-1980 Gustavo Morello, S.J. 219
Chapter 8 Religion Meets Legal Strategy. Catholic Clerics, Lawyers, and the Defense of Human Rights in Brazil Rafael Mafei Rabelo Queiroz 243
Part II Contemporary Ministries Responding to Violence
Chapter 9 Building Peace and Dignity: Jesuit Engagement in Colombia's Magdalena Medio Elyssa Pachico 283
Chapter 10 From Preaching to Listening: Extractive Industries, Communities, and the Church in Rural Peru Javier Arellano-Yanguas 311
Chapter 11 Violence and Pastoral Care in Putumayo, Colombia Winifred Tate 339
Chapter 12 Violence, Religion, and Institutional Legitimacy in Northern Central America Robert Brenneman 371
Chapter 13 The Politics of Presence: Evangelical Ministry in Brazilian Prisons Andrew Johnson 395
Chapter 14 "Fui migrante y me hospedaron": The Catholic Church's Responses to Violence against Central American Migrants in Mexico Amelia Frank-Vitale 417
Chapter 15 From Guns to God: Mobilizing Evangelical Christianity in Urabá, Colombia Kimberly Theidon 443
Afterword Alexander Wilde 477
About the Contributors 481
Index 483