Latin America

RESUMEN: El objetivo de esta investigación es suministrar argumentos para identificar la Teología latinoamericana con la Teología de la liberación, y viceversa. Entre estos argumentos se debe considerar la conciencia de alcanzar la “mayoría de edad” de la Iglesia en América Latina en el postconcilio; la convicción de los teólogos de la liberación de estar elaborando una “nueva manera” de hacer teología; una toma de distancia del carácter ilustrado de la teología; y la posibilidad de reconocer en los acontecimientos regionales, particularmente en los pobres, un habla original de Dios. Este artículo pretende hacer una contribución al status quaestionis del método teológico.ABSTRACT: The objective of this paper is to provide arguments to identify Latin American Theology with Liberation Theology, and vice versa. Among these arguments, one should consider the awareness of the Church in Latin America reaching its “age of maturity” in the post-conciliar period. Other arguments are the conviction of liberation theologians to be elaborating a “new way” of doing theology; a distance from the illustrated characteristic of theology; and, the possibility of recognizing in regional events, particularly in the poor, God’s original speech. This article aims to contribute to the status quaestionis of the theological method.

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Javier Auyero, Poor People's Politics: Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001. 296 pp. $64.95 cloth; $19.95 paper

International Labor and Working-Class History ◽

10.1017/s0147547904340135 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 65 ◽

pp. 207-210

Author(s):

Matthew B. Karush

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Buenos Aires ◽

Free Market ◽

Standard Of Living ◽

Poor People ◽

Neoliberal Reform ◽

Magic Trick ◽

The Poor ◽

Electoral Support ◽

Duke University

During the early 1990s, Argentina's Peronist Party accomplished a political magic trick: under the leadership of President Carlos Menem, Peronism turned away from its traditional commitment to social justice and an activist state, embraced the free market and neoliberal reform, and yet maintained the electoral support of the majority of the poor. For many Argentine intellectuals, this trick was easy enough to explain. According to the conventional wisdom, poor people remained loyal to Peronism, despite their rapidly declining standard of living, either because they remained under the hypnotic spell of Juan and Evita or because they were bought off by clientelist politicians offering handouts. Javier Auyero's ethnography of Peronist politics in an impoverished shantytown on the outskirts of Buenos Aires challenges these simplistic explanations. This timely and important book reconceptualizes political clientelism, a crucial phenomenon within scholarship on Latin America and beyond, while making visible and intelligible a population that has been relegated to marginality both by socioeconomic realities and by academic discourse.

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Prophetic preaching in the contemporary context of South Africa

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi ◽

10.4102/ids.v47i1.114 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Hennie J.C. Pieterse

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Clear Understanding ◽

Prophetic Preaching ◽

The Poor ◽

Current Context ◽

New Situation ◽

Desmond Tutu ◽

The Church ◽

Contemporary Context

In South Africa we have a great legacy of prophetic preaching with preachers such as Desmond Tutu. Since the new dispensation, however, we are confronted today with a new situation of injustice and exclusion: the massive poverty amongst about 50% of the population. This article discusses the conditions for prophetic preaching in the current context of South Africa, which are a clear understanding of the poverty situation and solidarity of the church with the poor, a good understanding of prophetic preaching as a specific type of preaching, as well as the support of the congregation, the churches and the ecumenical church for prophetic preaching.Met predikers soos Desmond Tutu het ons ’n goeie erfenis van profetiese prediking in Suid-Afrika. Sedert die nuwe bedeling word ons egter met ’n nuwe situasie van ongeregtigheid en uitsluiting gekonfronteer: die massiewe armoede van ongeveer 50% van die bevolking. Hierdie artikel bespreek die voorwaardes vir profetiese prediking in die huidige konteks van Suid-Afrika: ’n duidelike begrip van die armoedesituasie en solidariteit van die kerk met die armes, ’n goeie begrip van profetiese prediking as ’n spesifieke soort prediking, asook die ondersteuning van die gemeente, die kerk en die ekumeniese kerk vir profetiese prediking.

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Liberation Theology in Latin America

10.1093/oso/9780190660130.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew A. Shadle

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Liberation Theology ◽

Historical Reality ◽

Gustavo Gutierrez ◽

The Poor ◽

Preferential Option ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S ◽

Political Turmoil ◽

The Church

This chapter examines the emergence of liberation theology in Latin America. It offers three cases studies illustrating the economic and political turmoil in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s: Chile, Brazil, and El Salvador. The chapter then turns to the theology of two prominent liberation theologians, Gustavo Gutiérrez and Ignacio Ellacuría. Gutiérrez proposes that God calls us to make a preferential option for the poor, and to work for integral liberation in history. Similarly, Ellacuría explains that God offers his salvation in history, and the church is called to realize the Reign of God in the midst of historical reality, siding with the “crucified people” with whom Jesus identifies.

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Obstacles to Change in the Church: Lessons from Four Brazilian Dioceses

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs ◽

10.2307/175007 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 395-414

Author(s):

Thomas C. Bruneau

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Third World ◽

The Other ◽

The Third ◽

The Poor ◽

The One ◽

The Third World ◽

The Church

A review of the popular and even scholarly literature dealing with the Catholic Church in Latin America during the last decade will leave the reader confused. The books, articles, and media coverage in comparison with each other are ambiguous and at times contradictory. If on the one hand the Church is described as the fastest-changing institution on the continent, there is on the other hand ample proof put forth that the institution is stagnant and in many cases apparently bankrupt. While some students point to the emergence of militant clergy groups such as the Golconda movement in Colombia or Priests of the Third World in Argentina, others as easily argue that these movements are beyond the institution and without significance in the larger society. And for every time the Church is shown siding with the poor and oppressed, two instances are held up in which words are not followed by action.

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Ten Years of Change in the Church: Puebla and the Future

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs ◽

10.2307/165726 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 299-312

Author(s):

Alexander Wilde

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Catholic Church ◽

Local Level ◽

Community Or ◽

The Poor ◽

The Future ◽

State Authority ◽

The Church

The Puebla meeting of the Latin American bishops in early 1979 capped a decade of far-reaching and surprising change in the Catholic Church. A new, local-level unit—the “ecclesial base community” or CEB—has given Catholicism a vitality in society it has not known for centuries. At the same time, the Church has achieved an unprecedented integration as an institution nationally and regionally, in Latin America as a whole. It has found itself, through an unexpected historical dynamic, increasingly committed to the cause of the poor in deed as well as word, And it has been thrust into political confrontations with state authority throughout the region with an intensity and scope unmatched since the nineteenth century.

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Ubodzy w diecezji augustowskiej czyli sejneńskiej

Prawo Kanoniczne ◽

10.21697/pk.2003.46.1-2.07 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 46 (1-2) ◽

pp. 167-191

Author(s):

Witold Jemielity

Keyword(s):

Turn Of The Century ◽

Poor People ◽

Parish Priest ◽

The Poor ◽

Bank Accounts ◽

The Rich ◽

The Church

Each parish had to provide maintenance to all the poor living on that area. Some of them used to live by the church in the parish houses called hospitals while others lived in villages. Few hospitals used the money put down to their bank accounts by the rich, the others were supported thanks to the alms of the parishioners and help of the parish-priest. Residents of hospitals cleaned the church, rang the bell for church, served during the mess or helped on the farm. Other poor people were called beggers. The parish-priest kept a record of beggers, issued certificates qualifying them to alms on the area of his parish, encouraged his parishioners to generosity. Civil authorities often criticized the quantity of beggers, idlers and wanderers. They tried to find any solution even by sending such people to the army or by forcing them to work. They mainly stressed that that was the duty of the parish. After the January Uprising communes got self-governed powers and since then they took care of the poor. On the turn of the century charity organizations came into being.

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Medellín, memoria y provocación para abrir la puerta a tiempos nuevos

Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira ◽

10.29386/reb.v78i309.717 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 78 (309) ◽

pp. 109

Author(s):

Geraldina Céspedes

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

American Continent ◽

The Poor ◽

America Latina ◽

The Times ◽

The Moment ◽

The Church

La Conferencia de Medellín se constituye uno de los eventos eclesiales más significativos y decisivos para la Iglesia, particularmente en América Latina. Pues, lo que sucedió fue un acontecimiento kairótico, un tiempo de gracia, un acontecimiento del Espíritu. Y es significativo que sus “bodas de oro” ocurran en tiempos del Papa Francisco, que, al igual que Medellín, reinterpreta los signos de los tiempos a la luz del retorno a Jesús y a la opción por los pobres. Recontextualizar hoy esa doble referencia en el continente latinoamericano es escuchar y celebrar Medellín, también con ocasión de sus 50 años.Abstract: The Medellin Conference became one of the most significant and decisive ecclesial events for the Church, particularly in Latin America. For what happened was an opportune happening, a time of grace, an event of the Spirit. And it is significant that its “gold anniversary” happens in Pope Francisco’s days, someone who, like Medellin, reinterprets the signs of the times in the light of Jesus’ return and in the option for the poor. To re-contextualize today this double reference in the Latin American Continent is to listen to Medellin and to celebrate it at the moment of its fiftieth anniversary.Keywords: Conference of Medellín; Latin American Church; Back to Jesus; Option for the por; Pope Francisco.

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Target-based Screening of the Chagas Box: Setting Up Enzymatic Assays to Discover Specific Inhibitors Across Bioactive Compounds

Current Medicinal Chemistry ◽

10.2174/0929867326666190705160637 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 26 (36) ◽

pp. 6672-6686

Author(s):

Emir Salas-Sarduy ◽

Gabriela T. Niemirowicz ◽

Juan José Cazzulo ◽

Vanina E. Alvarez

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Drug Discovery ◽

Side Effects ◽

Drug Repositioning ◽

Protozoan Parasite ◽

New Drugs ◽

Poor People ◽

Enzymatic Assays ◽

The Poor ◽

Specific Inhibitors

Chagas disease is a neglected tropical illness caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The disease is endemic in Latin America with about 6 million people infected and many more being at risk. Only two drugs are available for treatment, Nifurtimox and Benznidazole, but they have a number of side effects and are not effective in all cases. This makes urgently necessary the development of new drugs, more efficient, less toxic and affordable to the poor people, who are most of the infected population. In this review we will summarize the current strategies used for drug discovery considering drug repositioning, phenotyping screenings and target-based approaches. In addition, we will describe in detail the considerations for setting up robust enzymatic assays aimed at identifying and validating small molecule inhibitors in high throughput screenings.

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A holistic approach to pastoral care and poverty

Verbum et Ecclesia ◽

10.4102/ve.v31i1.386 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Johan Janse van Rensburg

Keyword(s):

Pastoral Care ◽

Pastoral Theology ◽

Holistic Approach ◽

Clear Distinction ◽

Poor People ◽

The Poor ◽

Holistic Understanding ◽

The Many ◽

The Church

The previous approaches to pastoral care are no longer adequate or effective for addressing the many issues related to poverty. The church has done wonderful work in terms of Christian charity. However, more needs to be done to improve the worsening situation of the poor significantly. The clear distinction between pastoral care and Christian charity is a luxury that is no longer affordable. Once we have a holistic understanding of pastoral care and counselling, we will find that we cannot possibly restrict our pastoral attention to encouraging the poor, to giving random advice and to praying. A holistic pastoral theology could lead to empowerment and should be a key concept in pastoral care with poor people and societies. The article offers a theological theory for a holistic approach and some implications of the praxis of counselling.

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