Postcolonial Theology
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"Materialidades (pos)coloniales y de la (de)colonialidad latinoamericana" (Laura Catelli y María Elena Lucero, Eds.,. Rosario, UNR Editora, 2014)
Esta colección de reflexiones, escritas originalmente en castellano, a lo largo de más de diez años, es un signo de agradecimiento al mundo latino que las inspiró, con muchísima gratitud, con humildad y con una actitud de propuesta. Los... more
Case studies in postcolonial contextualization mark a forty-year-old missiolog-ical trend in evangelical scholarship. The largely unqualified support of indigenous theological expression by mission theorists represents an epistemological... more
This chapter charts various ways that religious persons and groups can be perpetrators and victims of epistemic injustice. The practices of testifying and interpreting experiences take a range of distinctive forms in religious life, for... more
This paper explores the life and work of Brazilian Catholic nun and leading Latin American feminist liberation theologian Ivone Gebara. The paper aims to examine Gebara’s commitment to social justice based on her calling. I argue that... more
El presente trabajo se propone analizar los con-ceptos de “civilización” y “barbarie” que subyacen al “debatede Valladolid” en el siglo XVI, a la luz del pensamiento crítico de América Latina (Modernidad / Colonialidad). Re-visando y... more
The liberation theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez has offered an effective postcolonial critique of the conditions of life of the Latin American poor, and of a theological method that legitimated them. The present article studies early... more
This paper will probe a particular image from Augustine’s christology, that of the totus Christus, with the intent of subverting its imperialist tendencies and recovering its radical potential. This Pauline image of Christ, comprised as... more
Poco a poco va ganando fuerza la necesidad de entender y estudiar los procesos coloniales en la Antigüedad desde una perspectiva que vaya más allá de las teorías aculturacionistas, lo que conlleva la necesidad de emplear enfoques teóricos... more
Resumen: El presente artículo tiene por objetivo introducir algunas nociones generales de la teoría poscolonial, especialmente en Homi Bhabha, para ser aplicadas a una relectura de las dinámicas socio-políticas contemporáneas, y con ello... more
This article explores the global implications of the statement from African theologians that the body of Christ has AIDS. It will outline how these theologians employ the metaphor of the body of Christ to challenge the western world to... more
Publicado en Nicolás Panotto, ed. "INDECENT THEOLOGIANS & The Next Generation of Postcolonial Activism". California: Borderless Press, 2016, pp.105-131
I'm including in this bibliography monographs and edited volumes explicitly engaged with (predominantly) Christian religion and theology (with some nods to biblical studies and pastoral care) since about 2000 (with a couple important... more
Cross-cultural missionaries leave family, security, predictability, community – motivated by the gospel. But what is their understanding of the gospel? How do they measure “success”? What is their understanding of the value of the work... more
This paper critically surveys the similar yet independently-developed Postcolonial and Decolonial studies that have emerged in the last fifty years. I will begin by providing a short historical overview of the emergence of each school of... more
The author proposes a development of the Federation of Asian Bishops Conference's theology of church as a sacrament of harmony, drawing in particular from the East Asian concept of yin-yang unity and integration. In Daoist beliefs, yin... more
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Intercultural Theology (IT) and postcolonial studies are closely related. Both react to the emergence of non-Western voices with a call for an epis-temological shift which challenges the dominance of Western models of knowledge and truth.... more
El presente texto examina las formas de predicación jesuita, contenidas en el esquema de subjetividad cristiana, y que entran en juego con las estrategias de conquista, expansión y explotación en el reino de Chile durante el siglo XVII.... more
Editorial de Horizontes Decoloniales 2 (2016): pp. 1-22
This paper intends to delve into the political economy of the symbolic practice of eating idol meat in 1 Corinthians 8 from a Bourdieuian perspective. My contention is that Paul attempts to undermine the Roman socioeconomic system by... more
With its focus on " narrative " and theology as an ethnographic enterprise, the " postliberalism " of Hans W. Frei and George A. Lindbeck sought to incorporate insights from the linguistic turn in modern thought; however, it has faced... more
This chapter contributes to a postcolonial theological understanding of contemporary world Christianity, specifically in the context of the HIV epidemic. It focusses on the implications of the statement made by African theologians that... more
The liberation theology of Gustavo Gutiérrez has offered an effective postcolonial critique of the conditions of life of the Latin American poor, and of a theological method that legitimated them. The present article studies early... more
Bartolomé de Las Casas’ The Only Way: A Postcolonial Reading of At-One-Ment for Mission Dale Ann Gray, Ph.D. Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, 2018 Advisors: José David Rodríguez & Gordon (Tim) Huffman What can sixteenth... more
‘Postcolonial Feminist Theologies’, in Sîan M. Hawthorne (ed.), Gender: God (Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks), 79–93, Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA. ISBN-10: 002866325X / ISBN-13: 9780028663258
Postmodernism is typically construed as an enemy of Christian faith. Critics within ecclesial institutions often have not read its thinkers, and instead relay a second-hand report that postmodernism is against ‘absolute’ truth, and... more
In 2013, Edward Snowden released a trove of documents revealing the extent of government electronic surveillance. Since then, we have been inundated with reports of vicious malware attacks, election hacking, data breaches, potential... more
La hermenéutica bíblica en el mundo de lengua hispana ha estado dominada por un paradigma de conocimiento objetivista que postula un lector desinteresado y universal. La crítica poscolonial, al incorporar las aportaciones recientes de la... more
A reading of the Book of Ruth through the dual lenses of At-One-Ment and Postcolonial Theory and Theology renders a lack of at-one-ment for all save Naomi. This paper culminates in an imagined Ruth chapter 5 where the seeds of at-one-ment... more
Case studies in postcolonial contextualization mark a forty-year-old missiolog-ical trend in evangelical scholarship. The largely unqualified support of indigenous theological expression by mission theorists represents an epistemological... more