Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border
Resacralizing the Other at the US-Mexico Border

Author: Gregory L. Cuéllar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1000026469

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This book focuses on the themes of border violence; racial criminalization; competing hermeneutics of the sacred; and State-sponsored modes of desacralizing black and brown-bodied people, all in the context of the US-Mexico borderlands. It provides a much-needed substantive response to the State’s use of sacrilization to justify its acts of violence and offers new ways of theologizing the acceptance of the "other" in its place. As a counter-hermeneutic of the sacred, the ultimate objective of the book is to offer an alternative epistemological, theoretical and practical framework that resacralizes the other. Rejecting the State-driven agenda of othering border-crossers, it follows Gloria Anzaldúa’s healing move to the Sacred Other and creates a new hermeneutic of the sacred at the borderlands. One that resacralizes those deemed by the State as the non-sacred human other anywhere in the world. This is an important and topical book that addresses one of the key issues of our time. As such, it will be of keen interest to any scholar of Religious Studies and Liberation Theology as well as religion’s interaction with migration, race and contemporary politics.

Christianity and the Law of Migration
Christianity and the Law of Migration

Author: Silas W. Allard

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-09-05

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1000436373

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This collection brings together legal scholars and Christian theologians for an interdisciplinary conversation responding to the challenges of global migration. Gathering 14 leading scholars from both law and Christian theology, the book covers legal perspectives, theological perspectives, and key concepts in migration studies. In Part 1, scholars of migration law and policy discuss the legal landscape of migration at both the domestic and international level. In Part 2, Christian theologians, ethicists, and biblical scholars draw on the resources of the Christian tradition to think about migration. In Part 3, each chapter is co-authored by a scholar of law and a scholar of Christian theology, who bring their respective resources and perspectives into conversation on key themes within migration studies. The work provides a truly interdisciplinary introduction to the topic of migration for those who are new to the subject; an opportunity for immigration lawyers and legal scholars to engage Christian theology; an opportunity for pastors and Christian theologians to engage law; and new insights on key frameworks for scholars who are already committed to the study of migration.

Christianity Across Borders
Christianity Across Borders

Author: Gemma Tulud Cruz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1000416747

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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of key issues in contemporary global migration and considers the theological implications for Christianity, in general, and for Christian faith and practice in various parts of the world, in particular. Migrant Christians, who make up the majority of believers on the move and in diaspora, play an increasingly vital role in world Christianity today. Drawing on cases from across the globe, Gemma Tulud Cruz considers how Christians are faced with immense gifts and tremendous challenges brought by the ever-increasing presence of migrants in their midst and the conditions that characterize contemporary global migration. Migrant Christians themselves face multiple challenges, which have been made more stark by the coronavirus pandemic. The volume will be relevant to scholars of religion and of migration who are interested in a closer examination of what happens to Christians and Christianity, (faith) communities, and nation-states in the age of migration.

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latinoax Theology
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latinoax Theology

Author: Orlando O. Espin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2023-03-22

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 1119870321

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The new edition of the standard resource for those teaching or learning Latinoax theology Now in its second edition, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latinoax Theology remains the most up-to-date, fully ecumenical collection of scholarship in the field. Bringing together contributions by a diverse panel of established scholars and newer voices within various theological disciplines, this comprehensive volume challenges Western readings of Christianity and offers fresh insights into theological truth from varied cultural and ethnic perspectives. The Companion addresses a wide range of Latinoax contexts while highlighting the thought of female, male, and LGBTQ+ Latinoax scholars in theology, introducing readers to this significant movement. Each chapter provides the historical background of a particular topic, explores its treatment by Latinoax theologians, discusses the current state of the topic, and offers the unique perspective of internationally recognized authors. The revised second edition incorporates recent developments within Latinoax studies, featuring new and expanded chapters that reflect numerous traditions of thought, up-to-date sources and methodologies, diverse intra-Latinoax communities, and contemporary Latinoax theologies and theologians. This invaluable and unique companion: Provides a systematic account of the past, present, and future of Latinoax theology Features new essays by the most influential voices in the field, incorporating recent research from Catholic, Protestant, and Evangelical scholars Addresses the Latinoax experience of alienation and marginalization Represents the wide range of ecclesial and theological traditions Discusses Latinoax in timely contexts such as politics, immigration, feminism, gender, queer theory, and social and economic justice Edited by one of the world’s leading Latino theologians, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Latinoax Theology, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for academic scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and instructors in universities and seminaries covering courses in theology, political thought, Latinoax studies, religion in the United States, and related topics.

Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 11, Issue 2
Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 11, Issue 2

Author: Jon Kara Shields

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2022-08-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1666754099

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Table of Contents Resistances to Amoris Laetitia: A Critical Approach Antonio Autiero The Border, Brexit, and the Church: US Roman Catholic and Church of England Bishops’ Teaching on Migration 2015–2019 Victor Carmona and Robert W. Heimburger A Synodal Alternative for Ecclesial Conflict: Marshall Rosenberg’s Nonviolent Communication Mary Lilian Akhere Ehidiamhen Review Essay: Theological Ethics of Life: A New Volume by the Pontifical Acad-emy for Life Roberto Dell’Oro and M. Therese Lysaught Teaching Catholic Social Thought Symposium: Teaching Catholic Social Thought: A Symposium Introduction Jon Kara Shields Catholic Social Living: Teaching Students to “Live Wisely, Think Deeply, and Love Generously” Bernard Brady Resisting Gnostic Spiritualism in the Catholic Social Teaching Classroom Joyce A. Bautch Teaching Catholic Social Thought Online in the Philippines: From a Challenge to an Opportunity Teofilo Giovan S. Pugeda III Formative Figures for Catholic Social Witness Daniel Cosacchi Solidarity, Praxis, and Discernment: Formation at the Catholic Worker Casey Mullaney “Are We Theologians?”: A Practical Theology Approach to Catholic Social Teaching with Women Religious in East Africa Sarah C. DeMarais Pedagogical Reflections by East African Women Religious Alumnae of the Loyola Institute for Ministry Srs. Charity Bbalo, Lucy Kimaro, and Jane Frances Mulongo Book Reviews Peter Cajka, Follow Your Conscience: The Catholic Church and the Spirit of the Sixties Maria C. Morrow Charles C. Camosy, Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine Is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality Ramon Luzarraga Ki Joo Choi, Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and the Prob-lem of Asian American Identity David Kwon Daniel K. Finn, Faithful Economics: 25 Short Insights Chris Gooding Najeeb T. Haddad, Paul, Politics, and New Creation: Reconsidering Paul and Empire Jeffrey L. Morrow Conor M. Kelly, The Fullness of Free Time: A Theological Account of Leisure and Recreation in the Moral Life G. D. Jones Matthew Levering, The Abuse of Conscience: A Century of Catholic Moral Theology Kathryn Lilla Cox Marc LiVecche, The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury Darren Cronshaw Angela McKay Knobel, Aquinas and the Infused Moral Virtues Nicholas Ogle Joel Oesch, Crossing Wires: Making Sense of Technology, Transhu-manism, and Christian Identity Simeiqi He Robert Chao Romero, Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o So-cial Justice, Theology, and Identity Jens Mueller

Engaging Latino/a/x Theologies
Engaging Latino/a/x Theologies

Author: Sharon E. Heaney

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-02-26

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1666701084

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Sharon E. Heaney describes how the life-giving interruption of Latin American poets, novelists, artists, and theologians changed her life in a conflict-ridden Northern Ireland. An outsider, in this study she provides an engagement with a stream of theology in the United States she takes to be exemplary. Latino/a/x theology is teología en conjunto (collaborative theology). It models ways to examine complicated and contested histories and identities, and it resists dominant assumptions about theological points of departure in favor of also valuing the everyday as locus theologicus. Identifying major themes and foundational thinkers, alongside more recent developments, Heaney offers an overview and invites readers to further reading, study, and formation. Modelling what it esteems, each chapter closes in conversation with a Latino/a/x leader in the church. The conclusion is written by practical theologian, Altagracia Pérez-Bullard. She affirms, this “is not just an intellectual exercise, . . . this engagement . . . is the practice of our lives as we journey with God and as we journey with one another. . . . It is an exciting journey. It changes us.”

Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology
Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology

Author: Celia Deane-Drummond

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1000033899

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This book sets out some of the latest scientific findings around the evolutionary development of religion and faith and then explores their theological implications. This unique combination of perspectives raises fascinating questions about the characteristics that are considered integral for a flourishing social and religious life and allows us to start to ask where in the evolutionary record they first show up in a distinctly human manner. The book builds a case for connecting theology and evolutionary anthropology using both historical and contemporary sources of knowledge to try and understand the origins of wisdom, humility, and grace in ‘deep time’. In the section on wisdom, the book examines the origins of complex decision-making in humans through the archaeological record, recent discoveries in evolutionary anthropology, and the philosophical richness of semiotics. The book then moves to an exploration of the origin of characteristics integral to the social life of small-scale communities, which then points in an indirect way to the disposition of humility. Finally, it investigates the theological dimensions of grace and considers how artefacts left behind in the material record by our human ancestors, and the perspective they reflect, might inform contemporary concepts of grace. This is a cutting-edge volume that refuses to commit the errors of either too easy a synthesis or too facile a separation between science and religion. As such, it will be of interest to scholars of religious studies and theology – especially those who interact with scientific fields – as well as academics working in anthropology of religion.

Racism and the Weakness of Christian Identity
Racism and the Weakness of Christian Identity

Author: David Kline

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-01-22

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0429589638

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Despite the command from Christ to love your neighbour, Western Christianity has continued to be afflicted by the evil of racism and the acts of violence that accompany it. Through a systems theoretical and deconstructive account of religion and the political theology of St. Paul, this book traces how the racism and violence of modern Western Christianity is a symptom of its failure to secure its own myth of sovereignty within a complex world of plurality. Divided into three sections, the book begins with a philosophical and critical account of what it calls the immune system of Christian identity. Focusing on Pauline political theology as reflective of an inherent religious "autoimmunity" built into Christian community, a theory of theological-political violence is located within Western Christianity. The second section traces major theoretical aspects of the historical "apparatus" of Christian Identity. It demonstrates that it is ultimately around the figure of the black slave that racialized Christian identity becomes a system of anti-blackness and white supremacy. The book concludes by offering strategies for thinking resistance against such racialised Christian identity. It does this by constructing a "pragmatics of faith" by engaging Deleuze’s and Guattari’s use of the term pragmatics, Moten’s theory of black fugitivity, and Long’s account of African American religious production. This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary view of Christianity’s relationship to racism will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Theological Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Race Studies, American Studies, and Critical Theory.

Past and Present Political Theology
Past and Present Political Theology

Author: Dennis Vanden Auweele

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-02

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1000064816

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This book demonstrates how discussions of Political Theology have been a constant feature throughout philosophical modernity and that they continue to impact contemporary political debates. By tracing the historical roots and detailing the contemporary outworking of Political Theology in Europe, it contends that this growing field requires a broader "canon" in order for it to mature. Political Theology is shown here to be about the diversity of relationships between religious beliefs and political orientations. First engaging with historical debates, chapters re-examine the relationship between personal conviction and societal orientation on such topics as the will to believe, evil, individualism, the relationship between church and state, and the relationship between belief and natural science. The volume then establishes the relevance of these debates for the present day. As such, it invites engagement on the back and forth between religion and politics in a liberal democracy and a communist state, on how communitarianism relates to religious language, on the diversity of Christian and Jewish political theology, and the politics of toleration. By broadening out the field of Political Theology this book offers the reader a more nuanced understanding of its sustained influence on public life. As such it will be of interest to academics working in Political Theology, but also Theology, Philosophy and Political Science more generally.

Ecological Borderlands
Ecological Borderlands

Author: Christina Holmes

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2016-10-13

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0252098986

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Environmental practices among Mexican American woman have spurred a reconsideration of ecofeminism among Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examines ecological themes across the arts, Chicana activism, and direct action groups to reveal how Chicanas can craft alternative models for ecofeminist processes. Holmes revisits key debates to analyze issues surrounding embodiment, women's connections to nature, and spirituality's role in ecofeminist philosophy and practice. By doing so, she challenges Chicanas to escape the narrow frameworks of the past in favor of an inclusive model of environmental feminism that alleviates Western biases. Holmes uses readings of theory, elaborations of ecological narratives in Chicana cultural productions, histories of human and environmental rights struggles in the Southwest, and a description of an activist exemplar to underscore the importance of living with decolonializing feminist commitment in body, nature, and spirit.