ISBN:
9780199702039
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (288 pages)
Series Statement:
Religion and Global Politics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.6409728109048
Keywords:
Ríos Montt, Efraín -- Political and social views
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Ríos Montt, Efraín -- Religion
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State-sponsored terrorism -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
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Political violence -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
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Mayas -- Crimes against -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
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Human rights -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
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Christianity and politics -- Guatemala -- History -- 20th century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Between 1982 and 1983, the military government of Guatemala waged a scorched-earth campaign of terror against largely Mayan rural communities. Drawing on newly-available primary sources including guerrilla documents, evangelical pamphlets, speech transcripts, and declassified US government records, Virginia Garrard-Burnett provides a fine-grained picture of what happened during the rule of Guatelaman president-by-coup Efraín Ríos Montt. She suggests that three decades of war engendered an ideology of violence that cut not only vertically, but also horizontally, across class, cultures, communities, religions, and even families.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- 1. Ríos Montt Earns His Place in the History Books: Debates about la Violencia -- 2. Guatemala's Descent into Violence -- 3. Ríos Montt and the New Guatemala -- 4. Terror -- 5. "Los Que Matan en el Nombre de Dios": Ríos Montt and the Religious Question -- 6. Blind Eyes and Willful Ignorance: U.S. Foreign Policy, Media, and Foreign Evangelicals -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
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