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Descubre la plasticidad de Japón de la mano de Murakami. A través de la visión de uno de los especialistas en literatura japonesa, Carlos Rubio, el lector conocerá y descubrirá aspectos de la cultura japonesa y de la sociedad actual. ¿El Japón de Murakami o el Murakami de Japón? La historia de la cultura japonesa ha demostrado cierta habilidad para plasmar unos valores, una sensibilidad, una sustancia, unos significados reconocidos como característicamente nipones. Haruki Murakami no es una excepción a esa tendencia porque en cada una de las páginas de sus novelas está Japón; se...

This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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“El autor, Santiago Camacho, nos describe cómo era esta ideología en sus orígenes y como la Iglesia, igual que siempre ha ocurrido a lo largo de la Historia (y no sólo en aspectos religiosos), ha tratado de contaminarla durante siglos hasta que se ha conseguido demonificar unas creencias milenarias.” (http://www.comentariosdelibros.com) Desde tiempos ancestrales, los seres humanos han pactado con la divinidad, a cualquier precio, incluso si esa divinidad es la personificación del mal. Historia oculta del satanismo recorre la historia de la adoración del maligno sin prejuicios, sin...