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Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America
by Professor David Stoll, Virginia Garrard-Burnett, David Stoll
Paperback, 234 Pages, Published 1993 by Temple University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-56639-103-0, ISBN: 1-56639-103-2

"Born-again Protestantism in South and Central America is expected to attract one-quarter to one-third of the population by early in the twenty-first century. The diverse case studies in this volume explore facets of the movement such as the role of women, the connection with Catholic mysticism, the politics of supposedly conservative evangelical missionaries, and the implications for existing patterns of authority. Virginia Garrard-Burn ..."






Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
New Foreword by Elizabeth Burgos
by David Stoll, Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, Ross Gelbspan
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2007 by Westview Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-4396-9, ISBN: 0-8133-4396-8

"Rigoberta Menchu is a living legend, a young woman who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was the story of all poor Guatemalans. By turning herself into an everywoman, she became a powerful symbol for 500 years of indigenous resistance to colonialism. Her testimony, "I, Rigoberta Menchu," denounced atrocities by the Guatemalan army and propelled her to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. But her story was n ..."






Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala
by David Stoll
Hardcover, 383 Pages, Published 1994 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-08182-5, ISBN: 0-231-08182-0

"From this awareness, there can be no turning back even when they are forced to commit atrocities against their own people and even when living under totally controlled conditions. — Luisa Frank and Philip Wheaton, Indian Guatemala: Path to Liberation, 1984 At dawn on June 15, 1982, an armed force surrounded the village of Chacalte, pounced on the just-stirring households and killed every per- Soldiers checking an Ixil man's identif ..."






Is Latin America Turning Protestant?(Updated)
The Politics of Evangelical Growth
by David Stoll
Paperback, 445 Pages, Published 1991 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-07645-7, ISBN: 0-520-07645-1

"National leaders could be more domineering than the missionaries they replaced . “The churches in Latin America . . . are dominated by the clergy, by ecclesiastical structures that place power and privilege and initiative in the hands of a few, and by . . . imported patterns of . . . ministry that stifle indigenous, popular leadership,” TEE founder F. Ross Kinsler wrote. Instead of serving vested ecclesiastical interests, Kinsler su ..."






Escaping the Fire(Illustrated)
How an Ixil Mayan Pastor Led His People Out of a Holocaust During the Guatemalan Civil War
by Terri Jacob Mccomb, Tomás Guzaro, David Stoll, Toms Guzaro, TomãS Guzaro
Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of Texas Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-292-72284-2, ISBN: 0-292-72284-2

"During the height of the Guatemalan civil war, Tomás Guzaro, a Mayan evangelical pastor, led more than two hundred fellow Mayas out of guerrilla-controlled Ixil territory and into the relative safety of the government army's hands. This exodus was one of the factors that caused the guerrillas to lose their grip on the Ixil, thus hastening the return of peace to the area.In Escaping the Fire, Guzaro relates the hardships common to most M ..."






Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala
by David Stoll
Paperback, 383 Pages, Published 1993 by Columbia University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-08183-2, ISBN: 0-231-08183-9

"Challenging the views of human rights activists, Stoll argues that the Ixils who supported Guatemalan rebels in the early 1980's did so because they were caught in the crossfire between the guerillas and the army, not because revolutionary violence expressed community aspirations."






Oh, Are You the Substitute?
by Professor David Stoll
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2008 by E-Booktime, Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-59824-877-7, ISBN: 1-59824-877-4

"Did you know that most 2nd graders are missing their two front teeth? These stories took place mainly in the Elementary, Middle, and High schools and sometimes outside of the school environment."






Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
New Foreword by Elizabeth Burgos
by David Stoll
Hardcover, 388 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-31776-8, ISBN: 0-367-31776-1

"In this hotly debated book, key points of which have been corroborated by the New York Times, David Stoll compares a cult text with local testimony from Rigoberta Menchu's hometown."






New edition of "I, Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans"(1st Edition)
by David Stoll
Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-3694-7, ISBN: 0-8133-3694-5

"This book is about a living legend, a young Guatemalan orphaned by government death squads who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was “the story of all poor Guatemalans.” Published in the ..."






Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans(1st Edition)
by David Stoll
Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1998 by Westview Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-3574-2, ISBN: 0-8133-3574-4

"This book is about a living legend, a young Guatemalan orphaned by government death squads who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was “the story of all poor Guatemalans.” Published in the autobiographical I, Rigoberta Menchú, her words brought the Guatemalan army's atrocities to world attention and propelled her to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. Five years later, as her country's civil war ended and t ..."






Teller of Tales
A Musical Adventure from the Life of Robert Louis Stevenson (French's musical library)
by Neil Wilkie, David Stoll
Paperback, 207 Pages, Published 1996 by Samuel French, Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-573-69518-6, ISBN: 0-573-69518-0

"Walter ("Wattie'") Simpson Friend of RLS, from a highly respected family. Ages from 29 ... Sidney Colvin Professor and critic of art and literature who's done well quickly; Mrs. Sitwell' s platonic younger lover who becomes RLS' editor and friend."






A Woman's Skin(1st Edition)
by David M. Stoll, Professor David Stoll
Paperback, 263 Pages, Published 1994 by Rutgers University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2029-2, ISBN: 0-8135-2029-0

"Yes, says Allen J. Natow, M.D., of the New York University Medical Center in New York City. At least four different active ingredients have been identified in aloe Compounds. Two of them act against bradykinin and prostaglandin. Bradykinin is  ..."






Is Latin America Turning Protestant?(1st Edition)
The Politics of Evangelical Growth
by David Stoll
Hardcover, 445 Pages, Published 1990 by University Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-06499-7, ISBN: 0-520-06499-2

"Were his policies to blame? Proaño was not well physically when he gave a friend and me an hour of his dwindling energies in May 1985: he seemed less charismatic than careworn. He had just reached the mandatory retirement age of seventy-five and stepped down. But for thirty-one years, Proaño occupied a sacred position in Andean culture. Many still regarded the bishop as a saint, a breathing, talking, miracle-dispensing equivalent o ..."






Another Drink, Please! Confessions and Observations
(Paperback)
by Professor David Stoll
Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2008 by Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-59858-466-0, ISBN: 1-59858-466-9






Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America
by David Stoll, Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1993 by Temple University Press,U.S.
ISBN-13: 978-1-56639-102-3, ISBN: 1-56639-102-4






Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
by David Stoll
368 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-429-96613-2, ISBN: 0-429-96613-X

"In 1981–1982, estimates Yvon LeBot (1995:195), there were 6,000 full-time guerrilla combatants plus “some thousands provisionally and precariously armed ” from a support base of more than a quarter million people. But if the URNG was  ..."






Mayas in Postwar Guatemala(1st Edition)
Harvest of Violence Revisited (Contemporary American Indian Studies)
by Timothy J. Smith, Dr. Walter E. Little, David Stoll, Brenda Rosenbaum, Abigail E. Adams, Edward F. Fischer, Robert M. Carmack, Judith M. Maxwell, Jennifer Burrell, Barbara Bocek, Monica Dehart, Peter Benson, Liliana Goldin, J.Anthony Paredes, University Alabama Press
Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2009 by University Alabama Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-5536-4, ISBN: 0-8173-5536-7

"Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Mayan communities and commitment to conducting research in Mayan languages, places current anthropologica ..."






Come and Praise 2 Word Book(1st Edition)
by Alison J. Carver, Dexter J. Booth, Anne Ramkaran, Arthur Scholey, David Palmer, David Stoll, Elizabeth Bennett, Estelle White, Geoffrey Gardner, Jancis Harvey, Simon Fitter, Pamela Appleford, Robert L. Smith, Roger Courtney, Sheila Cozens
Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2005 by Bbc Active
ISBN-13: 978-0-563-34247-2, ISBN: 0-563-34247-1

"Come and Praise 2 Word Book (Pack of 5) This sequel to Come and Praise 1 includes 77 Songs and hymns on popular themes including Christmas, Easter, Harvest and other festivals, Caring for the world, Day by day, Seasons, and Peace. Available in packs of 5. Full description"






Is Latin America Turning Protestant?
The Politics of Evangelical Growth
by David Stoll
445 Pages, Published 1990 by Univ Of California Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-91195-6, ISBN: 0-520-91195-4

"The Politics of Evangelical Growth David Stoll ... foot soldiers for their wealthy financial backers, they were willing to exploit moral issues and signed up the television evangelists who became the prophets of the religious right.23 The Democratic incumbent, Jimmy Carter, was an elder in his local Southern Baptist congregation and taught Sunday school there. Few thought that he was an effective president, partly because he tried ..."






Fishers of Men or Founders of Empire?
The Wycliffe Bible Translators in Latin America
by David Stoll
Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 1983 by Zed Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-86232-112-3, ISBN: 0-86232-112-3

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