Publisher's Synopsis
Contributors to this book examine the relations of religion, violence, rights and efforts at post violence reconciliation and reckoning in contemporary and historical cases in Latin America Cases range from religious connections of forensic work on victims of state terror in Argentina to the emergence of Dominion Theology, church role in armed conflict in Peru and evangelical gangs in the barrios of Rio de Janeiro. the churches and dictatorship in Chile, Vatican diplomacy, and religion and violence in early independence Mexico
