Finding a social voice : the church and Marxism in Africa / / by Joseph C. McKenna

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910170986703321
• Autore: McKenna Joseph C.
• ISBN: 0-585-12571-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 261.2/1
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: From the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, the influence of Marxist ideas expanded in sub-Saharan Africa. The Catholic Church saw this influence as likely to affect the accomplishment of its mission, and its pastoral efforts accordingly sought to deal with the Marxist thrust. In the late 1980s, Marxist influence in Africa declined sharply as Marxist political dominance became less intense. Nevertheless, the Church's encounter with Afrcian Marxism constituted an important chapter in both secular and ecclesiastical history. Finding a Social Voice records and analyzes the significant elements of this encounter. Father McKenna's book investigates how postcolonial African regimes under varying degree of Marxist influence have interacted with the Catholic Church, and studies how the Chruch has grown through its response to that interaction. The book contributes greatly to the virtually unexplored topic of church-state interaction in contemporary Africa. McKenna's claim that the Catholic Chruch's response to Marxism was a "part of its coming to maturity," part of its bringing its social perspective to bear on the processes of political, economic, and social modernization through which traditional cultures were passing, is an important contribution to the more recent literature on the emergence of "civil society" in Sub-Saharan Africa. The text also provides an introduction to post-Vatican II understandings of ecclesiastical activity in Africa. It reviews the theory and practice of Marxism as developed by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and the leaders of Soviet Russia and other ; Communist countries. It then presents an overview of the ways in which Marxist influence worked in Africa and a similar overview of how the Church functioned and was affected by that influence. Finally, the book offers case-studies on the interaction of Marxism and the Church in four diverse Africa countries: Mozambique, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. The introductory chapters make this book accessible to the general reader; the book as a whole is an enrichment of our understanding of contemporary Africa.

Complex Kleinian groups / / Angel Cano, Juan Pablo Navarrete, Jose Seade

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910437864503321
• Autore: Cano Angel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Springer, 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-90968-5; 3-0348-0481-4
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2013.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Collana: Progress in mathematics ; ; v. 303
• Altri autori (Persone): NavarreteJuan Pablo; SeadeJose
• Disciplina: 512.2
• Soggetti: Kleinian groups
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- 1 A glance of the classical theory -- 2 Complex hyperbolic geometry -- 3 Complex Kleinian groups -- 4 Geometry and dynamics of automorphisms of P2C -- 5 Kleinian groups with a control group -- 6 The limit set in dimension two -- 7 On the dynamics of discrete subgroups of PU(n,1) -- 8 Projective orbifolds and dynamics in dimension two -- 9 Complex Schottky groups -- 10 Kleinian groups and twistor theory -- Bibliography -- Index. .
• Sommario/riassunto: This monograph lays down the foundations of the theory of complex Kleinian groups, a “newborn” area of mathematics whose origin can be traced back to the work of Riemann, Poincaré, Picard and many others. Kleinian groups are, classically, discrete groups of conformal ; automorphisms of the Riemann sphere, and these can themselves be regarded as groups of holomorphic automorphisms of the complex projective line CP1. When we go into higher dimensions, there is a dichotomy: Should we look at conformal automorphisms of the n-sphere? or should we look at holomorphic automorphisms of higher dimensional complex projective spaces? These two theories differ in higher dimensions. In the first case we are talking about groups of isometries of real hyperbolic spaces, an area of mathematics with a long-standing tradition; in the second, about an area of mathematics that is still in its infancy, and this is the focus of study in this monograph. It brings together several important areas of mathematics, e.g. classical Kleinian group actions, complex hyperbolic geometry, crystallographic groups and the uniformization problem for complex manifolds.