Romeros Legacy

Author : Pilar Hogan Closkey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461643147
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romero's Legacy written by Pilar Hogan Closkey and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-08-04 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilar Hogan Closkey and John Hogan have brought together the annual Archbishop Oscar Romero Lectures (2001-2007) to consider the life and death of Archbishop Romero and the daily struggles of the poor in our world, especially in the city of Camden, New Jersey-one of America's poorest cities. Romero's 'dangerous memory' provides the background, while urban poverty and the option for the poor are the foreground. Romero's commitment to the poor compels us to look at ourselves, and the authors of each chapter remind us of Romero's dangerous memory and his undying hope in the promised future. Taken as a whole, the book reminds us of the tough questions behind the real meaning of the 'option for the poor.' Can we as a faith community and institution move beyond high-sounding slogans and really opt for the poor? What are the costs? What are the risks? Especially in these difficult times of war, terrorism, and scandal, can we in the Church rebuild trust and be a sign of a future of justice and peace announced by Jesus?

Author : Lee, Michael E.
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608336913
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Saint written by Lee, Michael E. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Pilar Hogan Closkey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742548228
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romero's Legacy written by Pilar Hogan Closkey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the annual Romero Lectures presented in Camden, New Jersey, one of America's poorest cities. The book not only remembers Romero but evokes his model of ministry and leadership to give direction to some of the thorny social justice issues confronting American Catholics.The essays are by Robert McDermott, John Hogan, Thomas Gumbleton, Gustavo Gutierrez, Helen Prejean, Diana Hayes and Daniel Groody. They address urban problems, liturgy and justice, poverty and war, the preferential option, capital punishment, race and economics, and immigration.

Author : Matt Eisenbrandt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520961897
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assassination of a Saint written by Matt Eisenbrandt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A tale told well that provides valuable insights into the motives and modus operandi of the death squads in El Salvador, and of the financiers who commissioned and facilitated such crimes. It also highlights the difficulties that face those who pursue such cases many years after the crimes have taken place."—New York Review of Books On March 24, 1980, the assassination of El Salvador’s Archbishop Óscar Romero rocked that nation and the world. Despite the efforts of many in El Salvador and beyond, those responsible for Romero’s murder remained unpunished for their heinous crime. Assassination of a Saint is the thrilling story of an international team of lawyers, private investigators, and human-rights experts that fought to bring justice for the slain hero. Matt Eisenbrandt, a lawyer who was part of the investigative team, recounts in this gripping narrative how he and his colleagues interviewed eyewitnesses and former members of death squads while searching for evidence on those who financed them. As investigators worked toward the only court verdict ever reached for the murder of the martyred archbishop, they uncovered information with profound implications for El Salvador and the United States.

Author : Anne García-Romero
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816533865
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fornes Frame written by Anne García-Romero and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes, author of Fefu and Her Friends and Sarita and a nine-time Obie Award winner, is known for her plays that traverse cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic borders. In The Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes, Anne García-Romero considers the work of five award-winning Latina playwrights in the early twenty-first century, offering her unique perspective as a theatre studies scholar who is also a professional playwright. The playwrights in this book include Pulitzer Prize–winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Obie Award–winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacarías, resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Elaine Romero, member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago, Illinois; and Cusi Cram, company member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City. Using four key concepts—cultural multiplicity, supernatural intervention, Latina identity, and theatrical experimentation—García-Romero shows how these playwrights expand past a consideration of a single culture toward broader, simultaneous connections to diverse cultures. The playwrights also experiment with the theatrical form as they redefine what a Latina play can be. Following Fornes’s legacy, these playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.

Author : Jon Sobrino
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592449778
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archbishop Romero written by Jon Sobrino and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March of 1980 Oscar Arnulfo Romero, the archbishop of San Salvador, was assassinated as he celebrated Mass. This book combines personal recollections and theological reflections on this extraordinary and prophetic man. Sobrino, a colleague and admirer of the late archbishop as well as a prominent figure in liberation theology, explores the profound meaning of Romero's life and witness for El Salvador, the church, and the World. Sobrino considers first the impact of Romero's life and message on his own life and theology. In a moving personal memoir, he describes how Romero (by reputation a timid, conservative prelate) emerged as the outspoken champion of the poor and suffering people of El Salvador. Sobrino then places the archbishop in the context of the wider church. Romero as believer, as archbishop, as Salvadoran, as prophet, as martyr, as inspiration for theology - Sobrino explores each of these identities, to synthesize the totality of his person and his work. Summing up these reflections he concludes, Archbishop Romero was a gospel...a piece of good news from God to the poor of the world.

Author : Bruce Peabody
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476678375
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Living Dead written by Bruce Peabody and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead premiered, launching a growing preoccupation with zombies within mass and literary fiction, film, television, and video games. Romero's creativity and enduring influence make him a worthy object of inquiry in his own right, and his long career helps us take stock of the shifting interest in zombies since the 1960s. Examining his work promotes a better understanding of the current state of the zombie and where it is going amidst the political and social turmoil of the twenty-first century. These new essays document, interpret, and explain the meaning of the still-budding Romero legacy, drawing cross-disciplinary perspectives from such fields as literature, political science, philosophy, and comparative film studies. Essays consider some of the sources of Romero's inspiration (including comics, science fiction, and Westerns), chart his influence as a storyteller and a social critic, and consider the legacy he leaves for viewers, artists, and those studying the living dead.

Author : Walter Aaron Clark
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050592
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Los Romeros written by Walter Aaron Clark and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish émigré guitarist Celedonio Romero gave his American debut performance on a June evening in 1958. In the sixty years since, the Romero Family—Celedonio, his wife Angelita, sons Celín, Pepe, and Angel, as well as grandsons Celino and Lito—have become preeminent in the world of Spanish flamenco and classical guitar in the United States. Walter Aaron Clark's in-depth research and unprecedented access to his subjects have produced the consummate biography of the Romero family. Clark examines the full story of their genius for making music, from their outsider's struggle to gain respect for the Spanish guitar to the ins and outs of making a living as musicians. As he shows, their concerts and recordings, behind-the-scenes musical careers, and teaching have reshaped their instrument's very history. At the same time, the Romeros have organized festivals and encouraged leading composers to write works for guitar as part of a tireless, lifelong effort to promote the guitar and expand its repertoire. Entertaining and intimate, Los Romeros opens up the personal world and unfettered artistry of one family and its tremendous influence on American musical culture.

Author : Matthew Philipp Whelan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 081323252X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood in the Fields written by Matthew Philipp Whelan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the life and martyrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador through the lens of agrarian reform, arguing that his advocacy for the just distribution of land drew heavily on Catholic Social Doctrine and its conviction that creation is a common gift"--

Author : Matt Eisenbrandt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286790
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assassination of a Saint written by Matt Eisenbrandt and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 "God Forgive Me for What I'm Going to Do": An Insider Goes on the Record -- 13 "There Must Have Been a Thousand Romeros": Final Interviews and Trial Preparation -- 14 "Of a Magnitude That Is Hardly Describable": The Romero Assassination Case Goes to Trial -- 15 "The Fleas Always Stick to the Skinniest Dog": The Verdict's Impact on Saravia -- Epilogue -- Afterword, by Benjamín Cuéllar -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index