Haunting Questions of Liberation Theology
Haunting Questions of Liberation Theology
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Publisher: SCM Press
ISBN: 9780334066507
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 22/04/2025
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
Liberating is ongoing, and unending. And so is theology. From time to time, it is helpful to look back to discern, and to address, quest(ion)s that haunt current practices. This book looks back over the journey of liberation theology, and it also looks forward, guided by the insights and wisdoms of scholar/activists and practitioners from the global south (Africa, Latin America, Asia, Caribbean, Oceania) plus a few allies from the global north. It reflects on the journey of Liberation Theology as it engages current realities - from technology to queer experience - that are largely ignored by mainline theologies.
About the Contributors vii
Preface xi
1 Que(e)rying Theologies 1
Jione Havea
I Quests to Liberate
2 Latin American Liberation Theology: Review and the
Way Forward 17
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán
3 Decolonizing the Bible and its Interpretations:
A Latin American Black and Intercultural Reading of
Jeremiah 44.15–19 31
Maricel Mena-López
4 Kairos Perspectives on State Violence, Imperialism and
Integrity of Life: Beyond South Africa and Palestine 48
Marthie Momberg
5 (Re)translating Gender: Invasions, Irruptions and Eruptions 67
Nathan A. Esala
II Questioning (of) Praxes
6 Do You Hear This Woman? Subalternity and Affect in
Luke 7.36–50 79
Yajenlemla
7 Celebrating Uselessness in an Age of Toxic Productivity:
Jesus’ Parable of the Barren Fig Tree and Zhuangzi’s Story
of the Useless Tree 91
LIM Chin Ming Stephen
8 Liberated From Surveillance; Liberated For Symbiosis:
Towards a Political Spirituality of ‘Watching’ 107
James W. Perkinson
9 The Great Reset: (Re)imaging, (Re)liberating and
(Re)embracing Theologies of Liberation in the Age of
Hyper-Uncertainty 128
Hadje C. Sadje and Ma. Glovedi Joy L. Bigornia
III Queering Quests
10 Liberating Fixed Identities: A Decolonial Examination of
Theo/ideology 145
Ana Ester Pádua Freire
11 Queer Resistance: Reflections of an Indigenous Woman 151
Inatoli Aye
12 Male Violence Against Men: A Contextual Bible Study
on the Crucifixion of Jesus 161
David Tombs, Sithembiso Zwane, Charlene van der Walt
13 Stabat Mater: The Birth/Death of the Cross 177
Anita J. Monro
14 ‘Filth ina di church/body’: Excreta, Born-Again Bodies
and the Ecclesial Body in Jamaica 190
Anna Kasafi Perkins
unending
15 liberating tidalectics: a luta continua 207
Michael N. Jagessar
Index of Names and Subjects 215
