1. I highlight the governments of Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Fernado Romeo Lucas García, and Efrain Rios Months, which brought about an era of violence and military repression, and which culminated in systematic incursions into Indigenous towns and mass killing of Indigenous peoples. See Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efrain Rios Montt 1982–1983, Religion and Global Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011); Victor Perera, Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).
2. Ernesto Cardenal, The Gospel in Solentiname, Vols. 1–4 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1976–1982).
3. Randall Stephens, J. “From Abolitionists to Fundamentalists: The Transformation of the Wesleyan Methodists in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” American Nineteenth Century History 16, no. 2 (October 2015): 159–191.
4. Started in 1875 in Canada, this movement was active in the USA since the 1820s. See Nancy M. Sheehan, “Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Canada,” in The Canadian Encyclopedia (2006), accessed July 15, 2021, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/womans-christian-temperance-union.
5. Nellie McClung, In Times like These (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972), 9.