Description: Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efrain Rios Montt 1982-1983 (Religion and Global Politics) [Hardcover] Garrard-Burnett, Virginia Product Overview "Waging a counterinsurgency war and justified by claims of 'an agreement between Guatemala and God,' Guatemala's Evangelical Protestant military dictator General Ríos Montt incited a Mayan holocaust: over just 17 months, some 86,000 mostly Mayan civilians were murdered. Virginia Garrard-Burnett dives into the horrifying, bewildering murk of this episode, the Western hemisphere's worst twentieth-century human rights atrocity. She has delivered the most lucid historical account and analysis we yet possess of what happened and how, of the cultural complexities, personalities, and local and international politics that made this tragedy. Garrard-Burnett asks the hard questions and never flinches from the least comforting answers. Beautifully, movingly, and clearly written and argued, this is a necessary and indispensable book." -- Francisco Goldman, author of The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? "Virginia Garrard-Burnett's Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit is impressively researched and argued, providing the first full examination of the religious dimensions of la violencia - a period of extreme political repression that overwhelmed Guatemala in the 1980s. Garrard- Burnett excavates the myriad ways Christian evangelical imagery and ideals saturated political and ethical discourse that scholars usually treat as secular. This book is one of the finest contributions to our understanding of the violence of the late Cold War period, not just in Guatemala but throughout Latin America." --Greg Grandin, Professor of History, New York University Drawing on newly-available primary sources including guerrilla documents, evangelical pamphlets, speech transcripts, and declassified US government records, Virginia Garrard-Burnett provides aa 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. The book examines the causality and effects of the ideology of violence, but it also explores the long durée of Guatemalan history between 1954 and the late 1970s that made such an ideology possible. More significantly, she contends that self-interest, willful ignorance, and distraction permitted the human rights tragedies within Guatemala to take place without challenge from the outside world. Read more Details Publisher : Oxford University Press; 1st edition (January 15, 2010) Language : English Hardcover : 288 pages ISBN-10 : 0195379640 ISBN-13 : 48 Item Weight : 1.2 pounds Dimensions : 9.3 x 0.9 x 6.3 inches Best Sellers Rank: #746,813 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #23 in Guatemala History #40 in Latin American History (Books) #167 in Christianity (Books) #23 in Guatemala History We have been selling used books since 2012, and we've learned that the most important thing is doing good business. Honesty is our policy. Free Shipping We ship worldwide. We have multiple warehouses around the world, so please note the extended handling time on certain listings.
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ISBN: 0195379640
ISBN10: 0195379640
ISBN13: 9780195379648
EAN: 9780195379648
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Brand: OUP USA
GTIN: 09780195379648
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit : Guatemala under General Efrain Rios Montt 1982-1983
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2010
Subject: Latin America / Pre-Columbian Era, Terrorism, Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic, Human Rights, Presidents & Heads of State, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Violence in Society, Religion, Politics & State
Item Weight: 19.2 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Subject Area: Religion, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Length: 6.3 in
Item Width: 9.3 in
Series: Religion and Global Politics Ser.
Format: Hardcover
