Decolonizing Liberation Theologies

Past, Present, and Future
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-31133-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 391 g

Reihe: Postcolonialism and Religions

The publication of this volume marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the Postcolonialism and Religions series. In intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives, the chapters of this book constitute a complex whole: a volume that does justice to the justice-seeking origins of Latin American Liberation Theology, philosophy, and sociology as it emerged in the 1960s-70s and its development to the present. What drives this book is a common spirit and conviction: Liberation Theologies of the Global South remain relevant to the sociocultural and geopolitical contexts of today, which remain ensconced in the dynamics, exclusions, and resistances that gave rise to Liberation Theologies six decades ago. Today we may speak of interculturality, of borderlands, of in-betweenness, in ways that complicate, confirm, affirm, and interrogate the “underside of history”, and the spaces that are marginalized but de-centered centers of liberation struggle — within, alongside, underneath, over-against societal projects that claim and exclude them, and that represent some of the actual challenges and opportunities to liberation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martínez Andrade, Luis

Panotto, Nicolás

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Befreiungstheologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Part I Legacies, Testimonies and Stories.- 50 Years of Latin American Liberation Theology.- Are the Poor Human Beings? Neoliberalism and Theology.- Liberation Theology and Its Fruits. Some Bibliographical Milestones.- Liberation Theology and Other Theologies in Latin America: Challenges for Today.- Part II Liberation In Contextual Focus.- The Weavings of Ancestral Spiritualities in Indian/Indigenous Theologies as Paths to Liberation.- The Noble House of La Virtual QTL. Voguing Queer Liberation Theologies in Latin America Since Marcella Althaus-Reid.- Islamic Liberation Theology and the Decolonial Turn: A Historical and Theoretical Introduction.- Liberation Themes in Latin American Literatures: The Case of Changó el gran putas by Manuel Zapata Olivella.- Liberalism, Liberation Theology, or Decolonial Theology? North American Latinx Theologies at the Crossroads of Ambivalence.- History, Memory, and Forgetting: Epistemological Challenges for Latin American Biblical-Theological Studies.- Part III Critical Perspectives.- The Current Status of Latin American Liberation Theology.- Other Worlds, Other Epistemes, Other Subjects: The Flame (Never Extinguished) of Latin American Liberation Theologies.- Part IV Looking to the Future.- Looking Back and Looking Forward from the Margin of the Margins.- Looking Back and Looking Forward from the Underside of History.

Über Autor(innen)

Nicolás Panotto is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Arturo Prat University, Chile, and founder and director of the educational organization Otros Cruces. 

Luis Martínez Andrade holds a PhD in sociology from the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), France.