Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Todd Hartch is Professor of History, Eastern Kentucky University. He is the author of The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity.

Reviews

"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