| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
Models for the Twenty-First Century. |
| Author: |
CooperThia., |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Series: |
New Approaches to Religion and Power |
| Subject: |
Economics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. - |
| Subject: |
Genocide -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. - |
| Subject: |
Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. - |
| Subject: |
Liberation theology. - |
| Subject: |
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic - |
| Subject: |
RELIGION / Christianity / General - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137311825 |
| Notes: |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Summary: |
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. |
| ISBN: |
9781137311825electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137311827electronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Overall State of Liberation Theology; 1 Resisting Imperial Peace: Theological Reflections; 2 Context Is What Hurts: Rethinking Contextual Theology in Light of Empire and Economics; 3 Theology, Spirit, and the Imperial Economic System; 4 The Hermeneutics of Bones: Liberation Theology for the Twenty-First Century; Part II United States; 5 A US Theology of Letting Go; 6 Dialogic Mediations: Reflections on the Hopeful Future of US Liberation Theology |
| Content Note: |
7 American Indian Liberation: Paddling a Canoe Upstream8 Uninterrogated Coloredness and Its Kin; Part III Around the World; 9 Rethinking Liberation: Toward a Canadian Latin@ Theology; 10 Key Issues for Liberation Theology Today: Intercultural Gender Theology, Controversial Dialogues on Gender and Theology between Women and Men, and Human Rights; 11 The Revolution in the Arab World. Liberation: The Promise and the Illusion; A Palestinian Christian Perspective; 12 Liberation Theology and Indigenous People; 13 Embodied Theology: Indigenous Wisdom as Liberation; Part IV Practice |
| Content Note: |
14 What Does Liberation Theology Mean in and for the Twenty-First Century?15 The Practice of Liberation Theology in the Twenty-First Century; Part V Future; 16 Popular Messianism, Complicity, and the Continued Relevance of Liberation Theology; 17 Toward a Twenty-First Century Black Liberation Ethic: A Marxist Reclamation of Ontological Blackness; 18 A Christian Liberationist Response to the Crisis at the United States-Mexico Border; 19 Doing Liberation Theology as a Resistive Performance; Conclusion; Further Suggested Readings; List of Contributors; Index |