Marisol Lopez Menendez – författare

This volume clearly communicates that Weber’s influence is of great significance to the history of social science, and to appreciating the theoretical work of other social scientists in the modern age. Its insightful and timely publication comprises topical and innovative work discussing Weber in a range of historical and contemporary questions including: the controversy surrounding the Da Vinci code; the charismatic role of martyrs; the nuclear weapons strategy in a post-cold-war age and the affinity between Hindu belief systems and disenchanted computer science. Max Weber Matters illustrates the multidisciplinary and continued relevance of Weber’s work and will be of interest to scholars across a range of disciplines, including historians, sociologists, political scientists and social theorists.

This volume clearly communicates that Weber’s influence is of great significance to the history of social science, and to appreciating the theoretical work of other social scientists in the modern age. Its insightful and timely publication comprises topical and innovative work discussing Weber in a range of historical and contemporary questions including: the controversy surrounding the Da Vinci code; the charismatic role of martyrs; the nuclear weapons strategy in a post-cold-war age and the affinity between Hindu belief systems and disenchanted computer science. Max Weber Matters illustrates the multidisciplinary and continued relevance of Weber’s work and will be of interest to scholars across a range of disciplines, including historians, sociologists, political scientists and social theorists.

This volume clearly communicates that Weber’s influence is of great significance to the history of social science, and to appreciating the theoretical work of other social scientists in the modern age. Its insightful and timely publication comprises topical and innovative work discussing Weber in a range of historical and contemporary questions including: the controversy surrounding the Da Vinci code; the charismatic role of martyrs; the nuclear weapons strategy in a post-cold-war age and the affinity between Hindu belief systems and disenchanted computer science. Max Weber Matters illustrates the multidisciplinary and continued relevance of Weber’s work and will be of interest to scholars across a range of disciplines, including historians, sociologists, political scientists and social theorists.

This volume clearly communicates that Weber’s influence is of great significance to the history of social science, and to appreciating the theoretical work of other social scientists in the modern age. Its insightful and timely publication comprises topical and innovative work discussing Weber in a range of historical and contemporary questions including: the controversy surrounding the Da Vinci code; the charismatic role of martyrs; the nuclear weapons strategy in a post-cold-war age and the affinity between Hindu belief systems and disenchanted computer science. Max Weber Matters illustrates the multidisciplinary and continued relevance of Weber’s work and will be of interest to scholars across a range of disciplines, including historians, sociologists, political scientists and social theorists.

Miguel Pro: Martyrdom and Politics in Twentieth-Century Mexico examines the complex relationship of modern martyrdom as preserved by memory and factual truth, and as retold through stories intended to impel political and religious aims. Martyr narratives depend on institutional affiliation to remain in the public memory, and are altered in order to maintain their ability to mobilize followers within changing social and political contexts. In order to examine the evolution of lasting martyr narratives, López-Menéndez scrutinizes the various renditions of the 1927 execution of Miguel Pro, a Jesuit priest caught in the bloody conflict between Catholics and the post-revolutionary state.

El dos de diciembre de 1974 México despertó a la noticia de que Lucio Cabañas había muerto en un enfrentamiento con militares que lo buscaban en las montañas de Guerrero. El guerrillero muerto en El Otatal se convertiría en leyenda. Su figura se encadenaba a la de Genaro Vázquez Rojas, otro maestro rural devenido en guerrillero y muerto en condiciones aún poco claras en febrero de 1972. Vázquez y Cabañas se convirtieron en parte del repertorio de personajes reivindicados por distintas organizaciones sociales: grupos de estudiantes, activistas magisteriales, campesinos, familiares de detenidos-desaparecidos y otras víctimas de la Guerra Sucia, que han recurrido a su memoria para plantear y actualizar demandas, establecer formas específicas de recordarlos y hacer suyo el espacio público mediante el recurso mnemónico de su nombre e imagen. El presente volumen se ha planteado como un esfuerzo colectivo que pone sobre la mesa sucesos políticos, económicos, académicos, religiosos y de otra índole para reflexionar sobre procesos constitutivos de la memoria relativa a las figuras de estos dos personajes en particular, y en torno a las formas de constitución de la memoria de los mismos a cincuenta años de su muerte.

El dos de diciembre de 1974 México despertó a la noticia de que Lucio Cabañas había muerto en un enfrentamiento con militares que lo buscaban en las montañas de Guerrero. El guerrillero muerto en El Otatal se convertiría en leyenda. Su figura se encadenaba a la de Genaro Vázquez Rojas, otro maestro rural devenido en guerrillero y muerto en condiciones aún poco claras en febrero de 1972. Vázquez y Cabañas se convirtieron en parte del repertorio de personajes reivindicados por distintas organizaciones sociales: grupos de estudiantes, activistas magisteriales, campesinos, familiares de detenidos-desaparecidos y otras víctimas de la Guerra Sucia, que han recurrido a su memoria para plantear y actualizar demandas, establecer formas específicas de recordarlos y hacer suyo el espacio público mediante el recurso mnemónico de su nombre e imagen. El presente volumen se ha planteado como un esfuerzo colectivo que pone sobre la mesa sucesos políticos, económicos, académicos, religiosos y de otra índole para reflexionar sobre procesos constitutivos de la memoria relativa a las figuras de estos dos personajes en particular, y en torno a las formas de constitución de la memoria de los mismos a cincuenta años de su muerte.