Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Wrong Man for the Job
2. The Center for Intercultural Formation
3. Battle for Influence
4. Liberating Mission
5. Crisis
6. Decline of the Missionary Initiative
7. CIDOC
8. Breaking the Spell
9. Grammar of Silence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Todd Hartch is Professor of History, Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity.
"The book is at once disarmingly conversational and highly
scholarly, a readable narrative and a rigorous analysis, a
compelling story and a strong thesis about Illich s life
work."--International Journey of Christianity and Education
"Fair-minded and readable Readers finding themselves uncomfortable
with all the available reform-revolution categories will find this
appreciative yet critical Illich biography a good read."--America
Magazine
"Hartch s work on this controversial man is recommended to all
academic libraries, especially those with Hispanic studies
collections. Hartch has done an excellent job in keeping us aware
of the tumultuous times in the 1960s and 1970s and those prophets
like Illich."--Catholic Library World
"Well researched and accessibly written, this is an important study
of a major late-20th-century social critic." --CHOICE
"Hartch captures Illich's rare intellect and passion -- as well as
his Catholic faith -- without succumbing to the ideological
commentary that mars so many analyses of one of Western culture's
most incisive social critics. I strongly recommend this book to
young readers who seek an introduction to Illich, as well as to
those like me who thought they already knew him." --Timothy
Matovina, author of Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's
Largest
Church
"Illich was an enigmatic Catholic figure, a polymath who saw
himself as a prophet of revolution. He viewed missionaries as tools
of cultural occupation, saw schooling as detrimental to real
education, and the medical system as harmful to health. Along the
way he denounced the Church hierarchy as a betrayal of Christ, was
suitably tried for heresy only to turn the tables on his
inquisitors. Yet he left a large footprint that Hartch has traced
with diligence and
care." --Lamin Sanneh, author of Disciples of All Nations: Pillars
of World Christianity
"Todd Hartch, a prolific analyst of religious cultures and
institutions of Latin America, provides a thoroughly original and
engrossing interpretation of the life of Ivan Illich, one of the
region's most provocative social thinkers of the second half of the
twentieth century. By focusing on Illich's priestly calling, which
endured long after he abandoned his public ministry, and by
decoding the often-camouflaged theological underpinnings of
Illich's thought and
action, Hartch provides an illuminating portrait of one of the last
century's most influential, yet misunderstood, critics of western
modernity and the Catholic Church." --Gilbert M. Joseph, Farnam
Professor of History and International Studies, Yale University
"Students of Latin American Christianity will be fruitfully
provoked by their encounter with Illich through Hartch's work and
contemporary readers of Illich now have a tremendous resource to
turn to in trying to understand those events that precipitated his
career as a social critic."-- Studies in Religion
"The great merit of this book is that it sheds light on an
important chapter in the life of the church in the mid-twentieth
century and on the role played by this still enigmatic figure."
--American Catholic Studies
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