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These essays emerge from different crucial and complex conflicts:
from the memory of a bishop, Bartolome de las Casas, urging the
pope of his time to cleanse the church of complicity with violence,
oppression, and slavery; from the lament and defiance of so many
Middle Eastern women, victims of male domination and too many wars;
from the voices bursting out from the colonial margins that dare to
question and transgress the norms and laws imposed by colonizers
and conquerors; from the emerging and diverse theological
disruptions of traditional orthodoxies and rigid dogmatisms; from
the denial of human rights to immigrant communities, living in the
shadows of opulent societies; from the use of the sacred Hebrew
Scriptures to displace and dispossess the indigenous peoples of
Palestine. The essays belong to different intellectual genres and
conceptual crossroads and are thus illustrative of the dialogic
imagination that the Russian intellectual Mikhail Bakhtin
considered basic to any serious intellectual enterprise.They are
also the literary sediment of years of sharing lectures, dialogues,
and debates in several academic institutions in the United States,
Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Malaysia, Switzerland,
Germany, and Palestine.
Theologies on the Move: Religion, Migration, and Pilgrimage in the
World of Neoliberal Capital speaks to the reality that many
religions have developed in motion, with people exploring new
boundaries, migrating, and being displaced. Consequently, major
religious traditions form as they come into contact with other
religions and cultures, typically in situations of struggle and
pressure. Due to neoliberal capitalism, more people are on the move
today than ever before. Most are driven by necessity (migration due
to violence, poverty, and perceived poverty); others, by religious
quests that are often fueled by experiences of tension
(pilgrimage). The chapters in this volume explore the complexity of
these situations, examining in detail how theology and religion
shape up in various contexts "on the move" and investigating
specific problems and tensions in order to suggest solutions,
alternatives, and new possibilities.
Theologies on the Move: Religion, Migration, and Pilgrimage in the
World of Neoliberal Capital speaks to the reality that many
religions have developed in motion, with people exploring new
boundaries, migrating, and being displaced. Consequently, major
religious traditions form as they come into contact with other
religions and cultures, typically in situations of struggle and
pressure. Due to neoliberal capitalism, more people are on the move
today than ever before. Most are driven by necessity (migration due
to violence, poverty, and perceived poverty); others, by religious
quests that are often fueled by experiences of tension
(pilgrimage). The chapters in this volume explore the complexity of
these situations, examining in detail how theology and religion
shape up in various contexts "on the move" and investigating
specific problems and tensions in order to suggest solutions,
alternatives, and new possibilities.
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