Hoy, el profeta de Nazareth sigue despertando un vivo interes en una amplia cantidad de circulos ortodoxos y heterodoxos. Los libros sobre el son tan abundantes como la proverbial planta de mostaza. Jesus, cuya muerte ocurrio hace casi dos mil anos, continua siendo la mas celebre figura religiosa, seguida por cuando menos dos mil millones de personas en todo el mundo, y fuente de inspiracion para algunas mas."

*Includes pictures *Includes Santa Anna's quotes about his own life *Includes a bibliography for further reading "Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican." - Sam Houston The butcher of the Alamo and Goliad. The traitor who sold half of Mexico. The Napoleon of the West. Mr. Fifteen Nails. The Mother Country's seducer. Almost 150 years after his death, a lot of name-calling is still being directed towards Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico 11 times in the 19th century,...

No era un hombre que poseyera una gran cultura, pero sabia como utilizar el sentimiento de su epoca, lo cual es una forma sutil de decir que era un avezado aventurero. Tenia aire presidencial. Le encantaba lucirse de cualquier forma posible. Santa Anna era "El aguila" - nombre que puso a su autobiografia - en mas de un sentido: el aguila es el animal que destaca en el centro de la bandera de Mexico, devorando una serpiente, simbolo del enemigo que profana el suelo nacional. Pero mas veces de lo que el esperaba cayo en desgracia, sufrio la ingratitud de sus compatriotas y solo por suerte se...

*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts and descriptions of the cult *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading European and American scholars are fascinated by her. She is exotic; they look at her with the romantic look of the anthropologist and the sociologist; she is Mexican, colorful, and third-worldly (not to mention that she is a fantastic reason to get funding from their universities). Many see in her, correctly, a prodigious syncretism, so common in the troubled history of Latin America. The Catholic hierarchy, the predominant religion in Mexico, is...

*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts from the apocrypha *Includes a list of the apocrypha, online resources, and a bibliography for further reading Between 50 and 90 CE, the various writings that comprise the New Testament were written, including the Four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles of Paul, and other letters to more general communities of the early Church. But what is recognized as the 26 books of the New Testament today, in literally hundreds of English translations, actually took several more centuries to be determined as "canonical" by the Church. In fact, it was not...

*Includes pictures *Includes Villa's own quotes about his life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly." - Pancho Villa "Pancho Villa," people whispered at the beginning of the 20th century, "can march 100 miles without stopping, live 100 days without food, go 100 nights without sleep, and kill 100 men without...

Esta es la historia de la Santa Muerte, culto de crisis; remix de catolicismo, kermesse y New Age; un culto hedonista pero tambien de sacrificio corporal; reflejo de fuerzas economicas, psicologicas y sociales mas amplias de lo que tal vez ninguno de sus acolitos sospecha.