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The Spanish Inquisition in colonial Peru: Bureaucracy, Race‐Thinking, and the Making of the Modern World Trying to understand how “civilized” people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in Western history. She found it in 19th century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, “race‐thinking,” and appeals to violent, “civilized” rationality. This article takes Arendt's...
Religious conversion has long paralleled and often intersected development schemes in Africa with reproductive health interventions. For example, the rapid expansion of Pentecostalism in Nigeria has impacted women's labor and delivery practices, and is more recently being pit against state‐run maternal health programs. This essay examines these dynamics and calls for a re‐thinking of secularization...
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