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A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas - Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide (Paperback)
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A Critical Introduction to Religion in the Americas - Bridging the Liberation Theology and Religious Studies Divide (Paperback)
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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.
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