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Remembering Esperanza. A Cultural-Political Theology for North American Praxis.
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Taylor, Mark Kline
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Artículo Disponible
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261.8097 T244
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Donado
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For a decade or more, North Americans have been conscious of the need to respond on their own terrain to the insights of Latin America liberation theology, integrating a variety of disciplines and movementes: feminism, cultural and political studies, anthropology, literature, hermeneutics, and theology. Remembering Esperanza responds to this challenge, providing an exciting new vision of disciplined theological inquiry. Taylor offers North American models of a new theology that serves an informed, critical transformative praxis of resistance to systematic distortions of human life: sexism, classism, racism.
Moving through his own key memories of a young Zapotec woman in southern Mexico, Mark Kline offers a picture of North America's theological situation in the light of current international dynamics. How can theology at once acknowledge its specific traditions while celebrating plurality and resisting forms of oppression? Taylor calls this theology's "postmodern trilemma" and proposes a cultural-political hermeneutic that privileges the voices of the oppressed even while celebrating a rich plurality of perspectives. Embracing this general hermeneutic, Taylor develops it further by examining theories of specific oppressions in the North American context: sexism, heterosexism, racism, classism, ethnocentrism. He seeks connections between these distortions, working toward a theory of interlocking oppressions. Taylor argues that North Americans like himself struggle with a pervasive and insidious practice of "abstraction": oppressively distancing from woman and mothers, from sensuality and frienship, form darker-hude peoples, from the earth itself. The last two chapters of Remembering Esperanza present the outlines of a christology adequate to these challenges to North American praxis. Drawing from revisionist, postmodern, and liberation perspectives, Taylor concludes with a christology of " reconciliatory emancipation," which sets in motion new symbols for re-valuing and empowering the victims of oppressive systems. |
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0-88344-642-1
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Orbis Books
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1
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1990
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292
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United States of America
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New York
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English
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Priscila Barrientos
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Priscila Barrientos
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15/01/2015
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15/01/2015
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