Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-269) and index.

Part I. Nations and reconciliation : truth and reconciliation -- Hope for the nations or only as much as is possible? / Iain S. Maclean -- The Mesa de Dialogo and the fate of the disappeared in Chile 1999-2000 : national forgiveness without political truth? / Mario Aguilar -- Unspeakable violence : the UN Truth Commissions in El Salvador and Guatemala / David Tombs -- The Maya 'greening road' and globalization : the Pan-Mayan movement as transmodern paradigm / Brett Greider -- Reinventing life and hope coming to terms with truth and reconciliation -- Brazilian style / Margaret E. Guider -- Part II. Churches and religious reconciliation -- The theme of reconciliation in theology in Latin America / Jose Comblin -- Social sin : social reconciliation? / Margaret Pfeil -- Part III. Nations and churches in the future -- Living in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission : a retroactive reflection / Charles Villa-Vicencio -- Truth and reconciliation : from Chile to South Africa / Michael Battle -- Reconciliation as a contested future : decolonization as project or beyond the paradigm of war / Nelson Maldonado-Torres.

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