Los funerales de Castro

"Cuatro años en Cuba como corresponsal de Televisión Española deberían ser suficientes para agotar mi capacidad de asombro", escribe Vicente Botín, autor de Los funerales de Castro. Pero no ha sido así. Cuba, como la pipa de Magritte, no es una isla, es la imagen de una isla. Hay que vivir en Cuba para saber cómo es la vida cotidiana, para entender que hay dos situaciones, una real y otra virtual, y que los cubanos habitan ambas a la vez sin estar locos, como dice el bolero de Richard Danenberg. Cuba no es el mundo feliz que reflejan los medios de comunicación, en Cuba hay una...

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Christian Duverger aclara por qué en la Nueva España el cristianismo pudo ser introducido con éxito y relativa rapidez: los primeros religiosos franciscanos, compenetrados por la cultura y la sensibilidad indígenas, sustituyeron ritos y prácticas sólo mediante un sincretismo evidente que hizo posible un cristianismo popular no siempre ortodoxo.

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En este acercamiento antropohistórico al fenómeno de las curaciones milagrosas, Theo Löbsack se pregunta seriamente qué secreto tienen los "charlatanes" que son capaces de curaciones súbitas, con la aparencia completa de un milagro por medios convencionales y excepcionales, en distintas épocas.