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Abstract Over the past twenty years, many Latin American liberation theologians concede a loss of initiative in shaping their societies. While insisting that God acts in history on the basis of a "preferential option for the poor," they admit it has made little practical difference. I attribute this loss to a lack of fit between the apparently empirical proposition that God is a being who has and acts upon personal preferences and the "cultural physics," so to speak, of late modern social change. I detail this view in terms of three cultural dynamics of modernization: historical consciousness, evolutionary explanation, and inter-religious contact. Liberation theologians may reply that the lack of fit is perennial, but always trivial in the face of inhuman suffering. Their argument is religiously potent, but does not satisfy metaphysical doubt regarding the divine option for the poor. Treating God's option for the poor as, instead, a symbolic engagement with ultimacy increases the likelihood that the lack of fit is a creative tension, rather than a fatal mismatch. The article concludes by pointing toward how such an approach might proceed. Journal Information The Journal of the American Academy of Religion is generally considered to be the top academic journal in the field of religious studies. Now in volume 68 and with a circulation of over 10,000, this international quarterly journal publishes top scholarly articles that cover the full range of world religious traditions together with provocative studies of the methodologies by which these traditions are explored. Each issue also contains a large and valuable book review section. Publisher Information Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. OUP is the world's largest university press with the widest global presence. It currently publishes more than 6,000 new publications a year, has offices in around fifty countries, and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing program that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and academic journals. Rights & Usage This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. journal article Latin American Feminist TheologyJournal of Feminist Studies in Religion Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring, 1998) , pp. 89-107 (19 pages) Published By: Indiana University Press https://www.jstor.org/stable/25002328
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Journal Information The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, the oldest interdisciplinary, inter-religious feminist academic journal in religious studies, is a channel for the publication of feminist scholarship in religion and a forum for discussion and dialogue among women and men of differing feminist perspectives. Its editors are committed to rigorous thinking and analysis in the service of the transformation of religious studies as a discipline and the feminist transformation of religious and cultural institutions. Publisher Information Indiana University Press was founded in 1950 and is today recognized internationally as a leading academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. As an academic press, our mandate is to serve the world of scholarship and culture as a professional, not-for-profit publisher. We publish books and journals that will matter 20 or even a hundred years from now – titles that make a difference today and will live on into the future through their reverberations in the minds of teachers and writers. IU Press's major subject areas include African, African American, Asian, cultural, Jewish and Holocaust, Middle East, Russian and East European, and women's and gender studies; anthropology, film, history, bioethics, music, paleontology, philanthropy, philosophy, and religion. The Press also features an extensive regional publishing program under its Quarry Books imprint. It is one of the largest public university presses, as measured by titles and income level. Rights & Usage This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. What is the concept of liberation theology?Liberation theology generally refers to a theology applied to the core concerns of marginalized communities in need of social, political, or economic equality and justice. Liberation theologies existed long before they became academic disciplines in the both the Latin American and African American contexts.
What is an example of liberation theology?The best-known form of liberation theology is that which developed within the Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1960s, arising principally as a moral reaction to the poverty and social injustice in the region, which Cepal, a leftist think tank, deemed the most unequal in the world.
What is liberation theology quizlet?Terms in this set (12) What is liberation theology? a school of thought that explores the relationship between Christian theology and political activism, particularly in areas of social justice, poverty, and human rights.
What happened liberation theology?To some degree, the liberationists' critique of inequality has now passed into the standard thinking of the Vatican, which has come to mix traditional ideas about morality and family structures with quite radical views on global economics. This combination has been evident under the past two popes.
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