Author: Edward L. Cleary
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813534619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Annotation After more than 500 years of marginalisation, Latin America's forty million Indians have gained political recognition and civil rights. Here, social scientists explore the important role of religion in indigenous activism, showing the ways that religion has strengthened indigenous identity and contributed to the struggle for indigenous rights.