Format:
xv, 221 Seiten
,
25 cm
ISBN:
9780190234270
Content:
Drawing on interviews with victims of forced disappearance, documents from the state and the Church, as well as field work and participant observation, The Catholic Church and Argentina's Dirty War explores how the Argentine government deployed the legitimating discourse of Catholicism to justify terrorism in the case of La Salette missionaries. It examines how the official Catholic hierarchy rationalized their silence, and how the victims understood their Catholic faith in such a context --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
"We are here to serve!"Who the la Salettes were -- Committed Catholics and the machinery of terror -- The long night -- "I was in hell" -- A race against time -- "Aren't we true Catholics?" -- Varieties of Catholicism.
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. Morello, Gustavo, 1966 - The Catholic Church and Argentina's dirty war New York : Oxford University Press, 2015 ISBN 9780190234294
Language:
English
Keywords:
Argentinien
;
Katholische Kirche
;
Politische Verfolgung
;
Geschichte 1976-1983
;
Chile
;
Videla, Jorge Rafael 1925-2013
;
Verfolgung
;
Katholische Kirche
;
Geschichte
