A groundbreaking corrective work, Latina/o Social Ethics strives to
create a liberative ethical approach to the Hispanic experience by
using its own tools and materials. First explaining why Eurocentric
ethical paradigms are inadequate in their attempts to liberate
oppressed communities, Miguel De La Torre looks with Hispanic eyes
at three major ethicists of the twentieth century--Walter
Rauschenbusch, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Stanley Hauerwas--and how
ethics is presented in U.S. culture wars, from the Religious Right
to the Religious Left. He deconstructs these ethical paradigms and
demonstrates why all are detrimental to and irreconcilable with the
Hispanic social location.
With a clean slate, then, De La Torre moves to constructing a
new Hispanic-centered ethical paradigm that is rooted in the Latino
community way of being. Reviewing the field of Hispanic ethical
thought, De La Torre pays special attention to specific concepts
ripe with potential that have been developed over the past
generation. In the final chapter, De La Torre offers his own
constructive paradigm--an ethics para joder, which is rooted in the
Latina/o experience, and by which, he argues, the Hispanic
community can survive within U.S. culture.
General
Imprint: |
Baylor University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
New Perspectives on Latina/o Religion |
Release date: |
October 2010 |
First published: |
October 2010 |
Authors: |
Miguel A De LA Torre
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-60258-294-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
|
LSN: |
1-60258-294-7 |
Barcode: |
9781602582941 |
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