Suffering and salvation in Ciudad Juárez /

"Since 1993 more than six hundred girls and women have been brutally slain in Ciudad Juarez in internationally condemned violence for which no one has been arrested. Nancy Pineda-Madrid's powerful reflection on this destructive and dehumanizing violence, based on first-hand knowledge of th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pineda-Madrid, Nancy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Suffering > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Salvation > Christianity.
Women > Crimes against > Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Salut > Christianisme.
Femmes > Crimes contre > Mexique > Ciudad Juárez.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Social conditions
Women > Crimes against.
Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Mexico > Ciudad Juárez.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Since 1993 more than six hundred girls and women have been brutally slain in Ciudad Juarez in internationally condemned violence for which no one has been arrested. Nancy Pineda-Madrid's powerful reflection on this destructive and dehumanizing violence, based on first-hand knowledge of the traumatic situation in Juarez, attempts to understand the cultural, economic, and even religious factors that feed the violence. She detects in the social suffering of the women there are yearning for release, justice, and healing in their quest for salvation through solidarity and community practices that resist rather than acquiesce to the violence"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 186 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-181) and index.
ISBN:9781451415087
1451415087

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