The Prophet of Cuernavaca: Ivan Illich and the Crisis of the West by todd hartch oxford, 256 pages, $29.95 W ho now remembers Ivan Illich? A Catholic priest, his seminars in Cuernavaca were a magnet for scholars, including John Rawls, Peter Berger, and Gustavo Gutiérrez. His early books were . . . . Continue Reading »
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Latin America led the globe in urbanization, urban planning, and it was there that modernist architecture ended. Continue Reading »
Latin America was supposed to become Protestant by now. In one of the major non-developments of the past quarter-century, it didn’t.Catholics didn’t take predictions of a Protestant Latin America lightly, and responded with renewal efforts of their own. Rodney Stark (Triumph of . . . . Continue Reading »
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