Decolonizing Liberation Theologies: Past, Present, and Future

ISBN-13: 9783031311307 / Angielski

Nicolás Panotto; Luis Martínez Andrade

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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.

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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

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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.