Prophet of Cuernavaca - Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West

Zusatztext Well researched and accessibly written, this is an important study of a major late-20th-century social critic. Informationen zum Autor Todd Hartch is Professor of History, Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity. Klappentext This book offers the first biography of Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich, who skewered the institutions of the West in the 1970s. Zusammenfassung This book offers the first biography of Catholic priest and radical social critic Ivan Illich, who skewered the institutions of the West in the 1970s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Wrong Man for the Job 2. The Center for Intercultural Formation 3. Battle for Influence 4. Liberating Mission 5. Crisis 6. Decline of the Missionary Initiative 7. CIDOC 8. Breaking the Spell 9. Grammar of Silence Conclusion Bibliography

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• Authors: Todd Hartch, Todd (Associate Professor of History Hartch, Hartch Todd
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.06.2015
• EAN: 9780190204563
• ISBN: 978-0-19-020456-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Religion: general, Christianity, History of Religion