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dc.contributor.editorBradbury, Pablo
dc.contributor.editorGeraghty, Niall H.D.
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-06T10:31:56Z
dc.date.available2025-03-06T10:31:56Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/99222
dc.description.abstractThis interdisciplinary volume brings together approaches from history, theology, cultural studies, architecture, sociology, and anthropology to reevaluate the legacy and significance of liberation theology in Latin America. Liberation theology was born in the 1960s at a time of Church renewal and socio-economic ferment, as many sought radical solutions to the perceived exhaustion of developmentalist projects and the institutionalised violence of capitalism and dependency. By focussing on praxis – the lived experiences, spiritual, and embodied practices of those engaged in social action – the book challenges the assumption that liberation theology had reached its twilight by the late 1970s. Indeed, it demonstrates that liberationist Christianity was more diverse and internally conflicted, more widely resonant outside ecclesial confines, and more interconnected over time, than often allowed. The chapters provide new perspectives on liberationist engagements with, and influence on, ecclesiology, Participatory Action Research, architecture and urbanism, feminism, human rights, ecofeminist political theology, and more, from the 1960s to the present moment in Latin America. Drawing these threads together, the book invites us to reconsider liberation theology’s praxis in retrospect and the continuities and changes that reach into the present day.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVG Theologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americasen_US
dc.subject.otherliberationist;Christianity;theologian;religious practice;social movement;South America;Catholic Church;lived experience;human rights;Cold War;political;ecologyen_US
dc.titleLiberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin Americaen_US
dc.title.alternativeAs it Was in the Beginning?en_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14296/hflc8361en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy4af45bb1-d463-422d-9338-fa2167dddc34en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781915249623en_US
oapen.pages241en_US
oapen.place.publicationLondonen_US


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