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Author Nepstad, Sharon Erickson

Title Convictions of the soul : religion culture and agency in the central America solidarity movement
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages)
Contents Culture, agency, and religion in social movements -- The origins of Central America's civil wars -- Leadership and the formation of solidarity -- Biography and recruitment receptivity -- Martyr stories -- Making politics personal -- Rituals and emotional rejuvenation -- Agency and transnational movements
Summary Many U.S. Christians were profoundly moved by the liberation struggles in Central America in the 1980s. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 50 activists in eight separate solidarity organizations around the country, Nepstad offers an analysis of the experiences of religious leaders and church members in the solidarity movement
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Subject Solidarity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History -- 20th century
Christianity and politics -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Christianity and international relations -- History -- 20th century
Insurgency -- Central America -- History -- 20th century
Missionaries -- Political activity -- Central America -- History -- 20th century
Missionaries -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Missionaries -- United States -- Political activity -- History -- 20th century
Christianity and international relations
Christianity and politics
Insurgency
Missionaries -- Political activity
Solidarity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Politik
Christentum
Friedensbewegung
Central America
United States
Mittelamerika
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press.
ISBN 0195169239
9780195169232