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Title Decolonial Christianities : Latinx and Latin American perspectives / Raimundo Barreto, Roberto Sirvent, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : illustration
Series New approaches to religion and power
New approaches to religion and power.
Contents Introduction / Raimundo Barreto, Roberto Sirvent -- Epistemological decolonization of theology / Enrique Dussel -- Towards a decolonial theology : perspectives from the Caribbean / Luis N. Rivera-Pagán -- Mesoamerican women's indigenous spirituality : decolonizing religious belief / Sylvia Marcos -- Mapping the Autochthonous Indigenous Church : toward a decolonial history of Christianity in las Américas / Jennifer Scheper Hughes -- Indigenous Christianities : ritual, resilience, and resistance among the Nahuas in sixteenth-century Mexico / Verónica A. Gutiérrez -- Iglesia autóctona : an indigenous response to colonial Christianity / Michel Andraos -- Indigenous decolonial movements in Abya Yala, Aztlán, and Turtle Island : a comparison / Néstor Medina -- Decolonizing the cosmo-polis : cosmopolitanism as a rehumanizing project / An Yountae -- Inversion and diasporas : decolonizing racialized sexuality transnationally / Matilde Moros -- ¡Sin maricones no hay revoluciones! (without queering, there's no revolutioneering!) : Mexico's queer subversions of public space and the decolonization of marriage heteronormativity / Ángel F. Méndez Montoya -- A critique of the coloniality of theological knowledge : rereading Latin American liberation theology as thinking otherwise / Nicolás Panotto -- Cuando el pobre crea en el pobre : decolonial epistemology in the ecclesial base communities of El Salvador / Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo -- Reimagining the church as a decolonial ally : Pedro Casaldáliga's liturgies of repentance / Ann Hidalgo -- A decolonial prayer / Cláudio Carvalhaes
Summary "What does it mean to theorize Christianity in light of the decolonial turn? This volume invites distinguished Latinx and Latin American scholars to a conversation that engages the rich theoretical contributions of the decolonial turn, while relocating Indigenous, Afro-Latin American, Latinx, and other often marginalized practices and hermeneutical perspectives to the center-stage of religious discourse in the Americas. Keeping in mind that all religions--Christianity included--are cultured, and avoiding the abstract references to Christianity common to the modern Eurocentric hegemonic project, the contributors favor embodied religious practices that emerge in concrete contexts and communities. Featuring essays from scholars such as Sylvia Marcos, Enrique Dussel, and Luis Rivera-Pagán, this volume represents a major step to bring Christian theology into the conversation with decolonial theory."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Postcolonial theology -- Latin America
Christianity -- Latin America
Christianity and culture -- Latin America
History of Western philosophy.
Colonialism & imperialism.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
Christian theology.
Religious issues & debates.
Philosophy -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
History -- General.
Literary Criticism -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Religion -- Christian Theology -- General.
Social Science -- Sociology of Religion.
Postcolonial theology
Christianity
Christianity and culture
Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Barreto, Raimundo, editor
Sirvent, Roberto, editor
ISBN 9783030241667
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