The Reemergence of Liberation Theologies: Models for the Twenty-First Century

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Resisting Imperial Peace: Theological Reflections....Pages 13-18
Context Is What Hurts: Rethinking Contextual Theology in Light of Empire and Economics....Pages 19-28
Theology, Spirit, and the Imperial Economic System....Pages 29-32
The Hermeneutics of Bones: Liberation Theology for the Twenty-First Century....Pages 33-40
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
A US Theology of Letting Go....Pages 43-48
Dialogic Mediations: Reflections on the Hopeful Future of US Liberation Theology....Pages 49-56
American Indian Liberation: Paddling a Canoe Upstream....Pages 57-67
Uninterrogated Coloredness and Its Kin....Pages 69-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Rethinking Liberation: Toward a Canadian Latin@ Theology....Pages 77-87
Key Issues for Liberation Theology Today: Intercultural Gender Theology, Controversial Dialogues on Gender and Theology between Women and Men, and Human Rights....Pages 89-99
The Revolution in the Arab World. Liberation: The Promise and the Illusion; A Palestinian Christian Perspective....Pages 101-109
Liberation Theology and Indigenous People....Pages 111-121
Embodied Theology: Indigenous Wisdom as Liberation....Pages 123-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
What Does Liberation Theology Mean in and for the Twenty-First Century?....Pages 137-144
The Practice of Liberation Theology in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 145-149
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Popular Messianism, Complicity, and the Continued Relevance of Liberation Theology....Pages 153-163
Toward a Twenty-First Century Black Liberation Ethic: A Marxist Reclamation of Ontological Blackness....Pages 165-170
A Christian Liberationist Response to the Crisis at the United States-Mexico Border....Pages 171-180
Doing Liberation Theology as a Resistive Performance....Pages 181-187
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
Conclusion....Pages 189-191
Back Matter....Pages 193-206