Suffering and salvation in Ciudad Juárez / Nancy Pineda-Madrid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pineda-Madrid, Nancy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffering--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Suffering.

Salvation--Christianity.

Salvation.

Women--Crimes against--Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.

Women.

Women--Crimes against.

Ciudad Juárez (Mexico)--Social conditions.

Ciudad Juárez (Mexico).

Mexico--Ciudad Juárez.

Physical Description:

xiii, 186 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2011]

Summary:

Since 1993 more than six hundred girls and women have been brutally slain in Ciudad Juárez in internationally condemned violence for which no one has been arrested. Nancy Pineda-Madrid's powerful reflection on this destructive and dehumanizing violence, based on first-hand knowledge of the traumatic situation in Juárez, attempts to understand the cultural, economic, and even religious factors that feed the violence. She detects in the social suffering of the women there a yearning for release, justice, and healing in their quest for salvation through solidarity and community practices that resist rather than acquiesce to the violence.

Contents:

Suffering : a social reality

Suffering, social imaginaries, and the making of evil

Salvation : a long-standing resource

Responding to social suffering : practices of resistance

On the possibility of salvation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0800698479

9780800698478

OCLC:

696099268

Publisher Number:

99945666230