Suffering and Salvation in Ciudad Jurez:

Contents

vii Contents Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Suffering—A Social Reality 9 Feminicide in Ciudad Juárez 11 A Social-Suffering Hermeneutic 19 “Reading” the Feminicide 26 Conclusion 37 2. Suffering, Social Imaginaries, and the Making of Evil 39 Social Imaginaries and the Making of Evil 40 Cultural-Symbolic Female Representations of Suffering 47 The Drive for Release, the Quest for Salvation 58 Conclusion 68 3. Anselm and Salvation 69 Anselm’s Context and the Argument of Cur Deus Homo 71 The Historic Legacy of Cur Deus Homo 82 Cur Deus Homo and the Ciudad Juárez Feminicide 86 Conclusion 95 viii • contents 4. Responding to Social Suffering—Practices of Resistance 97 Tilling the Soil: Practices of Resistance in the Midst of Suffering 99 Popular Religious Practices and Practices of Resistance 105 Claiming Space, Processing Pain, and Social Imagination 111 Conclusion 121 5. On the Possibility of Salvation 123 On Matters of Suffering and Response 124 On the Primacy of Community 132 Furthering the Realization of Salvation 141 Conclusion 152 Notes 153 For Further Reading 175 Index 182 ...