D H Levine
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 25072 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D H Levine |
| NOMBRES | D H |
| APELLIDO | Levine |
| FIRMA | LEVINE D H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3857-809X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 112 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 284 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 112 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Introduction
Planning for this Special Issue began in late 2019, well before the COVID-19 pandemic changed the conditions of life for all of us
Reflections on the Evolution of the State of the Art
Reflections on the evolution of the state of the art in the study of religion, society, and politics in Latin America over the last five decades begin with a critical assessment of the conventional wisdom of fifty years ago, as conveyed in texts and in graduate education. Stress was placed on modernization and secularization (with religion depicted as static and destined to decline) on consensus as a foundation for social life, and on drawing cle…
Bridging the Gap Between Empowerment and Power in Latin America
This chapter examines the religious energies unleashed in Latin America in terms of the creation and transmission over time of social capital. It argues that the gap between empowerment and power can best be understood in terms of the lack of social capital, or to be more precise, of its isolated and incomplete formation. The social capital that undergirds empowerment and makes power possible is best understood as a by-product of more general act…
Games for Civic Renewal
In this article, we summarize the first civic games contest, its rules and process, and the results. We describe civics, games, and argue that there is a fruitful intersection to be had between these two fields. Finally, we introduce the winning games
The Impact of Ghanaian Peacekeeping on Domestic Civil–Military Relations
Ghana has one of the longest histories of contribution to international peacekeeping operations, beginning with Kwame Nkrumah's pan-Africanist support for peacekeeping after independence. It also has the distinction of being one of the most stable democracies in Africa, despite multiple coups and years of military rule. Interviews with members of the Ghana Armed Forces indicate that these two phenomena may be related—Ghanaians who served in inter…
On Mentors and Mentoring
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Real Violence and Real Religion in Latin America
Reprobation as Shared Inquiry
Respect for victims requires that we have social systems for punishing and condemning (reproving) serious crimes. But, the conditions of social marginalization and political subordination of the communities from which an overwhelming number of prisoners in the United States come place serious barriers in the face of effective reprobation. Mass incarceration makes this problem worse by disrupting and disrespecting entire communities. While humanit…
Calidad de la democracia en Venezuela
Los debates sobre la democracia en la Venezuela de hoy carecen de una definición común sobre el tema, sobre cómo estudiarlo, e incluso respecto a qué es democracia. El régimen ha sido descrito de muchas formas: democracia participativa, híbrido, mixto, personalista, populista, iliberal, autoritarismo competitivo. El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar el nivel de calidad de la democracia en Venezuela, en el marco de una concepción procedimenta…
Les sanctuaires préhispaniques
Lévine Daniel. Les sanctuaires préhispaniques : une géographie du sacré. In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 157e année, N. 2, 2013. pp. 991-1010
Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America
Long assumed to be an unchanging and unquestioned bulwark of established power and privilege, religion in Latin America has diversified and flourished, while taking on new social and political roles in more open societies. How did this change occur? Why did churches in the region embrace new ideas about rights, sponsor social movements, and become advocates for democracy? Are further changes on the horizon? Daniel Levine explores these issues, un…
Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America
Long assumed to be an unchanging and unquestioned bulwark of established power and privilege, religion in Latin America has diversified and flourished, while taking on new social and political roles in more open societies. How did this change occur? Why did churches in the region embrace new ideas about rights, sponsor social movements, and become advocates for democracy? Are further changes on the horizon? Daniel Levine explores these issues, un…
Measuring the Quality of Democracy
Some Concerns About 'The Responsibility Not to Veto
Ariela Blätter and Paul D. Williams propose that the international community could more effectively end serious abuses such as genocide and crimes against humanity if the permanent five members of the UN Security Council adopted a 'responsibility not to veto;' that is, an informal agreement not to use their veto power when action to respond to genocide or mass atrocities is proposed and has the support of a simple majority on the Council. While t…
Civilian protection and the image of the ‘total spoiler’
A tremendous amount of important work has been done recently on operationalising the protection of civilians as a military task. The bulk of the discussion has focused on how militaries should respond to direct attacks on civilians. This is an important issue, but thinking about civilian protection should also include a serious examination of the ways in which the approach of military organisations to the problem of ‘spoiler’ groups can affect th…
Le destin des fils du soleil, aztèques et incas
Movimientos urbanos y desempoderamiento en Perú y Venezuela
Este artículo plantea un puzzle principal: ¿por qué la movilización ciudadana continuada viene acompañada de un crecimiento del desempoderamiento de estos mismos ciudadanos? ¿Por qué los movimientos fracasan, los líderes se desgastan y los miembros se dispersan, y cuáles son las implicaciones del fracaso organizativo para la representación democrática? Nuestra consideración del asunto encuentra sus raíces en un profundo análisis de los movimiento…
Reflections on the Mutual Impact of Violence and Religious Change in Latin America
The mutual impact of violence and religious transformation in the recent experience of Latin America has reshaped the public presence of churches (both Catholic and Protestant) and altered their discourse and appeal. Many churches turned to promotion of human rights, protection of victims, and opposition to authoritarian rule. Others allied with repressive regimes in the name of a kind of Christian nationalism. The violence at issue ranges from t…
Dictatorship and Politics
This is a well written, richly detailed, and very traditional history of Venezuelan politics during the rule of el benemérito Juan Vicente Gómez. The author’s central thesis is that Venezuelan historiography exaggerates in depicting the Gómez regime as a totally ruthless and effective tyranny. The author believes that the dictator’s political skills have been underrated, and that although Gómez was widely reviled as the “Tyrant of the Andes” and …
Chanting Down the New Jerusalem
This book centers attention on the construction of identity and the use of Christianity as an all-embracing, difference-neutralizing form of identity in a Caribbean island. The differences to be neutralized are those of ethnicity, place of origin, and wealth. Mass media, in this case a group of popular disc jockeys, are central to the propagation of this identity. These broad themes are situated within debates about identity and identity politics…
Pluralism as Challenge and Opportunity
Venezuela
El sistema democrático venezolano presenta luces y sombras. Las luces se apoyan en el hecho de que este sistema ha desarrollado, a lo largo de cuatro décadas de funcionamiento, una serie de rutinas y prácticas que hacen que resulte un sistema suficientemente enraizado entre la población y con bases sólidas como para no dudar de su continuación. Las sombras se derivan de la situación de crisis en que se encuentra durante la última década, consecue…
La calidad de la democracia en América Latina
Los estudios sobre la democracia en América Latina han ido más allá del análisis de las transiciones y la consolidación para preocuparse por hacer una evaluación comparativa y confiable de la calidad de la democracia. Esto requiere entender la democracia en términos multidimensionales. Así la calidad de la democracia es un continuo que varía con base al nivel alcanzado en cinco dimensiones interrelacionadas: decisión electoral, participación, res…
Pluralidad, pluralismo y la creación de un vocabulario de derechos
Tres elementos combinan para darle forma y contenido a la relación entre religión y política hoy y en el futuro: el hecho de la pluralidad y el pluralismo religioso; el desarrollo de un pluralismo social y político en contexto de democracia y la creación y difusión de un vocabulario práctico de derechos, que incluye la defensa de los derechos humanos, pero va más allá para promover la creación de sujetos autónomos, capaces ellos mismos de reclama…
Churches and politics in Latin America
The contributors to this volume -- scholars and clergy from both North and South America -- describe the complex relationship between religion and state in Latin America. They discuss the intense self-examination by Latin American Christians, the development of new theologies, new religions and social practices, and a heightened sensitivity to social problems.
Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism
Throughout Latin America, observers and activists have found in religion a promise of deep and long-lasting democratization. But for religion to change culture and politics, religion itself must change. Such change is not only a matter of doctrine, ritual, or institutional arrangements but also arises out of the needs, values, and ideas of average believers. Combining rich interviews and community studies in Venezuela and Colombia with analysis o…
Paradigm Lost
Analysis of transitions to democracy is marked empirically by democracy's own resurgent vigor, and theoretically by shifts away from focus on global political economy to concern with such political variables as organization or leadership, and study of their expression within national arenas. Contributors toTransitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy(edited by Guillermo O'Donnell, Phillippe Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead) explo…
Assessing the Impacts of Liberation Theology in Latin America
This article examines the nature and impact of liberation theology in Latin America and considers prospects for the future. Liberation theology's fundamental ideas are explored, and the reasons for its emergence and appeal are considered in detail. As a system of ideas, liberation theology first appears during a period of great social change, ecclesiological debate, and political upheaval. The convergence of these elements helps explain the theol…
Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism
Throughout Latin America, observers and activists have found in religion a promise of deep and long-lasting democratization. But for religion to change culture and politics, religion itself must change. Such change is not only a matter of doctrine, ritual, or institutional arrangements but also arises out of the needs, values, and ideas of average believers. Combining rich interviews and community studies in Venezuela and Colombia with analysis o…
Religion and Political Conflict in Latin America
The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and deal with the issues of poverty and the role of the poor within the church and political structures. Exploring areas from Nicaragua, El Salvador, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and Chile, the authors analyze the transformation in popular religion and reevalua…
The Future of Christianity in Latin America
The Christianity of the future in Latin America will remain dominant but now plural and competitive. The decline of Catholic monopoly and the surge of Protestant and Pentecostal churches, visible since the 1980s but with deeper roots, are explained in the context of social, cultural and political changes that have drawn churches into public space in new ways. The impact of democracy, violence, and a newly open civil society on churches and religi…
The Transition to Democracy
This article addresses the issue of transitions to democracy in Latin America through a close look at Venezuela. What does the Venezuelan experience tell us about contemporary prospects for democracy in Latin America? Is there a Venezuelan 'model', and if so, is it generalizable? Or are the specific con? ditions of Venezuelan democracy so unique as to make its success more an object of admiration than a guide to action? There are three distinct (…
The Rise and Decline of Liberation Theology
The Decline and Fall of Democracy in Venezuela
This paper presents an argument about the causes of the decline and fall of the 1958-1999 system of democratic politics, commonly known in Spanish as puntofijista, in Venezuela. Competing explanations of this process are evaluated, and an interim assessment of President Hugo Chávez and his political project is offered
Goodbye to Venezuelan Exceptionalism
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Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective
The Catholic Church, “Politics,” and Violence
The issue of politics and the Catholic Church in Latin America, relegated until recently to nineteenth-century historians, is very much alive today. On the one hand, the church as an institution is enmeshed in public controversy over human rights with repressive regimes from Paraguay to Panama, from Brazil to Chile. When it serves as a shelter for political and social dissent, it is accused by secular authorities of engaging in a “new clericalism…
Democratizing the Democracy? Crisis and Reform in Venezuela
Venezuelan politics presents a puzzle to students of Latin America, and to anyone concerned with the comparative analysis of democratization and democracy. As the major countries of Latin America (and the majority of scholars) worked their way from authoritarianism through "transitions"to democracy and hopefully toward democracy's consolidation, Venezuela moved in the opposite direction. After decades of political stability and social peace, begi…
La calidad de la democracia en América Latina
Los estudios sobre la democracia en América Latina han ido más allá del análisis de las transiciones y la consolidación para preocuparse por hacer una evaluación comparativa y confiable de la calidad de la democracia. Esto requiere entender la democracia en términos multidimensionales. Así la calidad de la democracia es un continuo que varía con base al nivel alcanzado en cinco dimensiones interrelacionadas: decisión electoral, participación, res…
On Premature Reports of the Death of Liberation Theology
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Poverty and Society
Journal Article Poverty and Society: The Growth of the American Welfare State in International Comparison. By Daniel Levine. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988. xii + 355 pp. Cloth, $40.00; paper, $14.00.) Get access Robert X. Browning Robert X. Browning Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 300–301, https://doi.org/1…
Considering Liberation Theology as Utopia
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Popular Groups, Popular Culture, and Popular Religion
This paper examines the emergence and character of popular religious groups and considers their implications for long-term cultural change in Latin America. Particular attention is given to the link between religious change and the creation of apopular subject, a set of confident, articulate and capable men and women, from hitherto silent, unorganized, and dispirited populations. I argue here that creation of such a popular subject is nurtured by…
Religion and Politics
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Religion and Politics in Latin America
Democracy and the Church in Venezuela
Democracy has been better to the Venezuelan Church than many of its leaders or militants thought possible as they witnessed its rebirth in the early days of 1958. Despite the hierarchy's role in stimulating and legitimating opposition to the Pérez Jiménez regime, and its effusive praise of democracy as a system (Conferencia Episcopal Venezolana, 1958), private fears were great. After all, the years of military rule had been good times for the Chu…
Religion and Politics, Politics and Religion
Religion and politics have depended on and influenced one another since the origins of what we know as Latin America. Their relation is both mutual and multifaceted; mutual because religion and politics have evolved together over the years, taking material and symbolic support from one another, and multifaceted because it embraces interinstitutional conflict and accommodation (e.g., the "church-state" relations which dominated earlier scholarship…
Authority in Church and Society
This article examines the relationship between the Catholic Church's self- image and the way its leaders and organizations perceive the world around them and act within it. By focusing on the development of central religious concepts, (most notably 'authority' and 'the Church') and their changing expression in organizational structures and patterns of behavior, a first step is taken toward a more complete and adequate analysis of the Church's evo…
Reflections on the Mutual Impact of Violence and Religious Change in Latin America
The mutual impact of violence and religious transformation in the recent experience of Latin America has reshaped the public presence of churches (both Catholic and Protestant) and altered their discourse and appeal. Many churches turned to promotion of human rights, protection of victims, and opposition to authoritarian rule. Others allied with repressive regimes in the name of a kind of Christian nationalism. The violence at issue ranges from t…
How Not to Understand Liberation Theology, Nicaragua, or Both
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Varieties of Reform Thought
Journal Article Varieties of Reform Thought. By Daniel Levine. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1964. xiii + 149 pp. Notes, bibliography, and index. $3.00.) Get access Allen J. Going Allen J. Going University of Houston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 52, Issue 2, September 1965, Pages 436–437, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908886 Published: 01 September 1965
The Failure of Elites
Issues in the Study of Culture and Politics
ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND POLITICS: A VIEW FROM LATIN AMERICA Get access Daniel H. Levine Daniel H. Levine University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 4, Issue 2, Spring 1974, Pages 77–104, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038316 Published: 01 January 1974
Religion and Politics
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Venezuela después de 1958
Conflict and Political Change in Venezuela
The Venezuelan Armed Forces in Politics, 1935-1959
Urbanization, Migrants, and Politics in Venezuela
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Democracy and Dictatorship in Venezuela, 1945-1958
Democracy and the Church in Venezuela
Democracy has been better to the Venezuelan Church than many of its leaders or militants thought possible as they witnessed its rebirth in the early days of 1958. Despite the hierarchy's role in stimulating and legitimating opposition to the Pérez Jiménez regime, and its effusive praise of democracy as a system (Conferencia Episcopal Venezolana, 1958), private fears were great. After all, the years of military rule had been good times for the Chu…
The Catholic Church, “Politics,” and Violence
The issue of politics and the Catholic Church in Latin America, relegated until recently to nineteenth-century historians, is very much alive today. On the one hand, the church as an institution is enmeshed in public controversy over human rights with repressive regimes from Paraguay to Panama, from Brazil to Chile. When it serves as a shelter for political and social dissent, it is accused by secular authorities of engaging in a “new clericalism…
Authority in Church and Society
This article examines the relationship between the Catholic Church's self- image and the way its leaders and organizations perceive the world around them and act within it. By focusing on the development of central religious concepts, (most notably 'authority' and 'the Church') and their changing expression in organizational structures and patterns of behavior, a first step is taken toward a more complete and adequate analysis of the Church's evo…
Religion and Politics, Politics and Religion
Religion and politics have depended on and influenced one another since the origins of what we know as Latin America. Their relation is both mutual and multifaceted; mutual because religion and politics have evolved together over the years, taking material and symbolic support from one another, and multifaceted because it embraces interinstitutional conflict and accommodation (e.g., the "church-state" relations which dominated earlier scholarship…
Urbanization in Latin America
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Church Elites in Venezuela and Colombia
Throughout the world, the Catholic Church has been in ferment since the Second Vatican Council. In Latin America, traditionally a Catholic region, the application of the council's ideas has stimulated dramatic changes in the outlook and practices of Church groups. These changes are particularly visible in the development of a new language for describing and evaluating temporal action ("the world"), and in the emergence of novel perspectives on th…
Latin America
Political Attitudes in Venezuela
Latin America
Political Attitudes in Venezuela
Religion and Politics in Latin America
This book explores the transformations in religion in conjunction with political change. Professor Levine suggests, highlights the dynamic and dialectical interaction between religion and politics in general, and addresses the more universal problem of relating thought to action. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the dist…
Religion and Politics in Latin America
Religion and Politics in Latin America
Journal Article Religion and Politics in Latin America: The Catholic Church in Venezuela and Columbia, by Daniel H. Levine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981, xii + 342 pp. $22.50 hardcover, $6.95 paper Get access Patrick H. McNamara Patrick H. McNamara The University of New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 3, Fall 1981, Pages 292–293, https://doi.org…
Portraits of Venezuela
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Sociología de la religión
Religion, Society, and Politics
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