Landscapes of Liberation
Mission and Development in Peru’s Southern Highlands, 1958 – 1988
Author(s)
Oehri, Noah
Collection
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)Language
EnglishAbstract
The reception of liberation theology in
Andean America
Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix to which the Church belonged. Missionary movements to Latin America coincided with visions for a progressive, radically transformative church.
Landscapes of Liberation expands scholarship into liberation theology’s reception in Andean America and critically examines the interplay of the Catholic Church as a global institution with parishes as local actors. Through source material from both sides of the Atlantic, this book charts how a transnational network of pastoral agents and laypeople in Peru’s southern highlands claimed mission and development as intertwined tenets of spiritual and social life throughout three decades of agrarian reform, activism, and social conflict. Ultimately, this book reveals how transformative theories for rural development yield contingent transformations: concrete change, yet contested liberation.
Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
Keywords
Mission;Development;Latin America;Catholic Church;Liberation Theology;Peru;Agrarian ReformDOI
10.11116/9789461665171ISBN
9789461665188, 9789462703742, 9789461665171Publisher
Leuven University PressPublisher website
https://lup.be/Publication date and place
Leuven, 2023Series
Leuven Studies in Mission and Modernity, 2Classification
Christianity
Religious mission and Religious Conversion