Synopses & Reviews
Declared dead in the 1990s, liberation theology is very much alive and well today across the globe. This book brings together prominent voices from the global North and South to present brief analyses of liberation theology's future. It includes leaders in the field along with the newest voices. Each of these pieces was presented in the American Academy of Religion in the first five years of the Liberation Theologies Consultation. This book aims to reach a wider audience of undergraduates and graduates in religious studies and theology to provoke discussion of the future of liberation theology. As the consultation itself stated, the two themes of this book are: cross-over dialogue - between contexts and between disciplines; and reflection on the implications of liberationist discourse for the transformation of theology itself.
Synopsis
This book brings together prominent voices from the global North and South to present brief analyses of liberation theology's future. It includes leaders in the field along with the newest voices. Each of these pieces was presented in the American Academy of Religion in the first five years of the Liberation Theologies Consultation.
Synopsis
Declared dead in the 1990s, liberation theology is very much alive and well today across the globe. This book brings together prominent voices from the global North and South to present brief analyses of liberation theology's future. It includes leaders in the field along with the newest voices. Each of these pieces was presented in the American Academy of Religion in the first five years of the Liberation Theologies Consultation. This book aims to reach a wider audience of undergraduates and graduates in religious studies and theology to provoke discussion of the future of liberation theology. As the consultation itself stated, the two themes of this book are: cross-over dialogue - between contexts and between disciplines; and reflection on the implications of liberationist discourse for the transformation of theology itself.
About the Author
Thia Cooper is an associate professor in Religion, Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies, and Peace Studies at Gustav Adolphus College
Table of Contents
Introduction; Thia Cooper
1. Resisting Imperial Peace: Theological Reflections; Dwight Hopkins
2. Context is What Hurts: Rethinking Contextual Theology in Light of Empire
and Economics; Joerg Rieger
3.Theology, Spirit and the Imperial Economic System;Jung Mo Sung
4.The Hermeneutics of Bones: Liberation Theology for the Twenty-first
Century - Mario Aguilar
5.A U.S. Theology of Letting Go; Rosemary Radford Ruether
6.Dialogic Mediations: Reflections on the Hopeful Future of U.S. Liberation
Theology; Benjamin Valentin
7. American Indian Liberation: Paddling a Canoe Upstream; Tink Tinker
8.Uninterrogated Coloredness and its Kin; Emilie Townes
9.Rethinking Liberation: Toward a Canadian Latin@ Theology; Nestor
Medina
10.Key Issues for Liberation Theology Today: Intercultural Gender Theology
Controversial Dialogues on Gender and Theology between Women and
Men, and Human Rights; Heike Walz
11.The Revolution in the Arab World. Liberation: The Promise and the
Illusion. A Palestinian Christian Perspective; Mitri Raheb
12.Liberation Theology and Indigenous People; Wati Longchar
13.Embodied Theology: Indigenous Wisdom as Liberation; Sylvia Marcos
14.What does liberation theology mean in and for the twenty-first century?; Jenny Plane Te Paa
15.The Practice of Liberation Theology in the Twenty-First Century; Ivan
Petrella
16.Popular Messianism, Complicity and the Continued Relevance of
Liberation Theology; Jeremy Ian Kirk
17.Toward a Twenty-first Century Black Liberation Ethic: A Marxist
Reclamation of Ontological Blackness; Charlene Sinclair
18.A Christian Liberationist Response to the Crisis at the United States -
Mexico Border; William A. Walker, II
19.Doing Liberation Theology as a Resistive Performance; Malik Sales
20.Conclusion; Thia Cooper
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