Liberation Theologies Postmodernity And The Americas

Author : David Batstone,Eduardo Mendieta,Lois Ann Lorentzen,Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136671425

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Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas by David Batstone,Eduardo Mendieta,Lois Ann Lorentzen,Dwight N. Hopkins Pdf

Simultaneously arising out of such diverse contexts as the black community in the United States, grassroots religious communities in Latin America, and feminist circles in North Atlantic countries, theologies of liberation have emerged as a resource and inspiration for people seeking social and political freedom. Over the last three decades, liberation theology has irrevocably altered religious thinking and practice throughout the Americas. Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas provides a meaningful and spirited debate on vital interpretive issues in religion, philosophy, and ethics. The renowned group of scholars explore liberation theologies' uses of discourses of emancipation, revolution and utopia in contrast with postmodernism's suspicion of grand narratives, while assessing what the postmodernism/liberation debate means for strategies of social and political transformation. Guided by the experiences of those at the margins of social power, liberation theologies demystify the eurocentric myths of secularization and modernity, and calls for a re-appraisal of religion in contemporary societies. Contributors: Edmund Arens, David Batstone, Maria Clara Bingemer, Enrique Dussel, Gustavo Gutierrez, Jurgen Habermas, Franz Hinkelammert, Dwight Hopkins, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Eduardo Mendieta, Amos Nascimento, Elsa Tamez, Mark McLain Taylor, and Sharon Welch, Robert Allen Warrior

Author : David Batstone,Eduardo Mendieta,Lois Ann Lorentzen,Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136671357

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Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas by David Batstone,Eduardo Mendieta,Lois Ann Lorentzen,Dwight N. Hopkins Pdf

Simultaneously arising out of such diverse contexts as the black community in the United States, grassroots religious communities in Latin America, and feminist circles in North Atlantic countries, theologies of liberation have emerged as a resource and inspiration for people seeking social and political freedom. Over the last three decades, liberation theology has irrevocably altered religious thinking and practice throughout the Americas. Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas provides a meaningful and spirited debate on vital interpretive issues in religion, philosophy, and ethics. The renowned group of scholars explore liberation theologies' uses of discourses of emancipation, revolution and utopia in contrast with postmodernism's suspicion of grand narratives, while assessing what the postmodernism/liberation debate means for strategies of social and political transformation. Guided by the experiences of those at the margins of social power, liberation theologies demystify the eurocentric myths of secularization and modernity, and calls for a re-appraisal of religion in contemporary societies. Contributors: Edmund Arens, David Batstone, Maria Clara Bingemer, Enrique Dussel, Gustavo Gutierrez, Jurgen Habermas, Franz Hinkelammert, Dwight Hopkins, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Eduardo Mendieta, Amos Nascimento, Elsa Tamez, Mark McLain Taylor, and Sharon Welch, Robert Allen Warrior

Author : Jeorg Rieger
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195161199

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Opting for the Margins by Jeorg Rieger Pdf

The authors of this volume seek to revive the preferential option for the poor for the postmodern world, showing how options for the margins can engage postmodernity in new ways and break new ground in religious, theological and ethical, as well as social, political and economic thinking.

Author : Gerald H. Anderson,Thomas F. Stransky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015066133086

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Liberation Theologies in North America and Europe by Gerald H. Anderson,Thomas F. Stransky Pdf

Author : David Tombs
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004496460

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Latin American Liberation Theology by David Tombs Pdf

David Tombs offers an accessible introduction to the theological challenges raised by Latin American Liberation and a new contribution to how these challenges might be understood as a chronological sequence. Liberation theology emerged in the 1960s in Latin America and thrived until it reached a crisis in the 1990s. This work traces the distinct developments in thought through the decades, thus presenting a contextual theology. The book is divided into five main sections: the historical role of the church from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 until the Cuban revolution of 1959; the reform and renewal decade of the 1960s; the transitional decade of the 1970s; the revision and redirection of liberation theology in the 1980s; and a crisis of relevance in the 1990s. This book offers insights into liberation theology’s profound contributions for any socially engaged theology of the future and is crucial to understanding liberation theology and its legacies. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Author : Christopher Rowland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139828055

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The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology by Christopher Rowland Pdf

Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics and religion but not always adequately understood. The second edition of this Companion brings the story of the movement's continuing importance and impact up to date. Additional essays, which complement those in the original edition, expand upon the issues by dealing with gender and sexuality and the important matter of epistemology. In the light of a more conservative ethos in Roman Catholicism, and in theology generally, liberation theology is often said to have been an intellectual movement tied to a particular period of ecumenical and political theology. These essays indicate its continuing importance in different contexts and enable readers to locate its distinctive intellectual ethos within the evolving contextual and cultural concerns of theology and religious studies. This book will be of interest to students of theology as well as to sociologists, political theorists and historians.

Author : Tim Noble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317543718

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The Poor in Liberation Theology by Tim Noble Pdf

Liberation theology has, since its beginnings over forty years ago, placed the poor at the heart of theology and revealed the ideologies underlying both society and church. Meanwhile, over this period, the progressive church appears to have stagnated and the poor of Latin America have turned increasingly to neo-Pentecostalism. 'The Poor in Liberation Theology' questions whether the effect of liberation theology is to provide a pathway to God or really to construct idols out of the poor. Combining the conceptual language of the philosophers Jean-Luc Marion and Emmanuel Levinas with the methodology of the liberation theologian Clodovis Boff, the volume outlines how liberation theology can work to ensure the poor do not become an ideological construct but remain icons of God. Drawing on a wealth of material from Latin American and Europe, the book demonstrates the continuing validity and importance of liberation theology and its further potential when engaged with contemporary philosophy.

Author : Joerg Rieger
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451411111

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Liberating the Future by Joerg Rieger Pdf

In this volume illustrious liberation theologians succinctly map the liberation terrain for the new century. Writing from a variety of standpoints - the African American community, feminist struggles, and social locations in Europe, North America, and Latin America - these leading thinkers reflect on the vastly changed context of and challenges to liberation. Their reflections directly address the new situation, especially the emergence of a global market economy, shifting structures of oppression, and the advent of multiculturalism and postmodernism.

Author : Ivan Petrella
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334040613

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Future of Liberation Theology by Ivan Petrella Pdf

There is a notion amongst some academics that Latin American Liberation Theology has had its day, a dream killed off by the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran revolutions, the 1989 demise of socialism and the "end of history" claims of the champions of capitalism. However in this book Petrella proves this to be an ill-conceived notion, and shows that this theology can be reinvented to bring its preferential option for the poor into the real world. The actualisation of historical projects is possible by adopting the methods developed by the Brazilian champion of critical legal studies, Robert Unger. Doing so will entail the rejection of these theologians' unitary concepts of a despised and rejected capitalism and a canonized and accepted socialism. Petrella argues for a reconstruction of these concepts and those of democracy and property too. He closely analyses the differences in democracy and capitalism as practised across the USA and Europe in support for the reconstruction of these concepts bringing about far-reaching suggestions for the future of liberation theology.

Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marion Grau
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567028801

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Interpreting the Postmodern by Rosemary Radford Ruether,Marion Grau Pdf

A collection of feminist, historical, liberation, and constructive theological responses Radical Orthodoxy. >

Author : John Lachs,Robert B. Talisse
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135948870

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American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia by John Lachs,Robert B. Talisse Pdf

The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy provides coverage of the major figures, concepts, historical periods and traditions in American philosophical thought. Containing over 600 entries written by scholars who are experts in the field, this Encyclopedia is the first of its kind. It is a scholarly reference work that is accessible to the ordinary reader by explaining complex ideas in simple terms and providing ample cross-references to facilitate further study. The Encyclopedia of American Philosophy contains a thorough analytical index and will serve as a standard, comprehensive reference work for universities and colleges. Topics covered include: Great philosophers: Emerson, Dewey, James, Royce, Peirce, Santayana Subjects: Pragmatism, Progress, the Future, Knowledge, Democracy, Growth, Truth Influences on American Philosophy: Hegel, Aristotle, Plato, British Enlightenment, Reformation Self-Assessments: Joe Margolis, Donald Davidson, Susan Haack, Peter Hare, John McDermott, Stanley Cavell Ethics: Value, Pleasure, Happiness, Duty, Judgment, Growth Political Philosophy: Declaration of Independence, Democracy, Freedom, Liberalism, Community, Identity

Author : Alma Rosa Alvarez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135915476

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Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature by Alma Rosa Alvarez Pdf

Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of liberation theology.

Author : Mario Sáenz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781461638643

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Latin American Perspectives on Globalization by Mario Sáenz Pdf

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution is defined not as a temporalized march of progress or takeover of state power, but as a movement for local control that upholds standards of material conditions for human dignity. Essays on identity, equality, and ethics propose models of transcultural and intercultural relations that replace center/periphery or world-systems approaches; they impel us to focus on building dialogic relationships rather than on accommodating universalized paradigms. Ultimately suggesting a reconstruction of the world in terms of the interests of one of the peripheral regions of the world, Latin American Perspectives on Globalization argues with cogency and urgency that no one within contemporary globalization debates can afford to ignore the Latin American philosophical tradition.

Author : Michelle A. Gonzalez
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479821211

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A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas by Michelle A. Gonzalez Pdf

A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas argues that we cannot understand religion in the Americas without understanding its marginalized communities. Despite frequently voiced doubts among religious studies scholars, it makes the case that theology, and particularly liberation theology, is still useful, but it must be reframed to attend to the ways in which religion is actually experienced on the ground. That is, a liberation theology that assumes a need to work on behalf of the poor can seem out of touch with a population experiencing huge Pentecostal and Charismatic growth, where the focus is not on inequality or social action but on individual relationships with the divine. By drawing on a combination of historical and ethnographic sources, this volume provides a basic introduction to the study of religion and theology in the Latino/a, Black, and Latin American contexts, and then shows how theology can be reframed to better speak to the concerns of both religious studies and the real people the theologians' work is meant to represent. Informed by the dialogue partners explored throughout the text, this volume presents a hemispheric approach to discussing lived religious movements. While not dismissive of liberation theologies, this approach is critical of their past and offers challenges to their future as well as suggestions for preventing their untimely demise. It is clear that the liberation theologies of tomorrow cannot look like the liberation theologies of today.

Author : Craig L. Nessan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610979948

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The Vitality of Liberation Theology by Craig L. Nessan Pdf

The Vitality of Liberation Theology argues for the ongoing necessity of a liberating theology in a world of endemic poverty and economic globalization. Although some have declared liberation theology's demise, or even its death, Nessan articulates the imperative and logic of it for a new generation. Latin American liberation theology burst forth as the most original and compelling theological movement from the developing world in the modern period. The story of the emergence and proliferation of liberation theology, as well as the opposition to this movement both within and without Latin America, is one of the most significant and lasting developments in Christianity since the last third of the twentieth century. Together with other forms of liberating theology from contexts of oppression in diverse parts of the world (anti-apartheid theology in South Africa and Namibia, Minjung theology in Korea, Dalit theology in India, or Palestinian liberation theology), Latin American liberation theology takes a prophetic stand against the hegemony of the status quo and joins league with other subaltern peoples in the cause of freedom from all forms of subjugation and oppression. The dawn of Latin American liberation theology inaugurated a new era in the global theological landscape.