La Revolución francesa y la cultura democrática

Este libro pretende estudiar, en primer lugar, cómo se ha verificado el tránsito de la Edad Media a la Modernidad y de ésta a la Posmodernidad. Atiende, sobre todo, a las raíces filosóficas de este movimiento porque, a la larga, son las ideas las que transforman las sociedades. Con ello no se niega el valor de los factores económicos, raciales, políticos, etc. Al mismo tiempo, el libro estudia las grandes construcciones ideológicas de la Modernidad, lo que se ha llamado ¿los grandes relatos?, y la crisis profunda en la que ha entrado, como denuncian lo más penetrantes críticos de...

Just a few times before in Mexico had been analyzed the relation between the church, national identity and state like in this work. The author offers an essay with the relation between politics, religious toughs and the struggles to establish a new politic system between the Independence and the Reform. This book also contains a study of the presence of religion in the political life and daily life and how it influences in the structure of the national identity.

From feudalism to the rise of cities, this book is a guide to the secrets and mysteries of the medieval world. It explores the plight of serfs, the bravery of the knights-errant, the frustrated ventures that were the Crusades, the romanticism of courtly love, and a number of other topics in an engaging style. The book also focuses on the role the Catholic Church played during the Middle Ages—often for ill—examining indulgences, the Inquisition, and the motivation for the construction of gothic cathedrals. Desde el feudalismo hasta el surgimiento de las ciudades, este libro es una guía de ...

This volume contains several oral accounts that were preserved from the Yoruba tradition that allows us to explore our roots. Their exchanges are steeped in cultural rituals, references, and principles that distinguishes them. In this book, the author looks at the meyi, one part of the te two categories comprised of the Ifa.