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Protestantismo y política en Puerto Rico, 1898-1930
Geschiedenis van de sociale, politieke, culturele en religieuse invloed van het protestantisme in Puerto Rico vanaf 1898.
Christentum und Revolution in Lateinamerika und der Karibik
Das Buch gibt einen ausfuhrlichen Uberblick uber die Entstehungsgeschichte der Theologie der Befreiung: Es beleuchtet den zeitgeschichtlichen Hintergrund, zeigt die ideengeschichtlichen Wurzeln und entfaltet die Grundthemen dieser Theologie. Dabei zeichnet es die Geschichte dieser Theologie als Geschichte engagierter christlicher Gruppen auf. Dabei analysiert der Autor nicht nur theologische Texte im engeren Sinn, sondern legt eine Vielzahl bisher nicht berucksichtigter Quellen aus der -Bewegungsliteratur- Lateinamerikas vor. Er weist nach, dass durch die Theologie der Befreiung und die mit ihr verbundene Praxis eine Neuinterpretation der Religionssoziologie notwendig und moglich gemacht wurde."
Centering Hope as a Sustainable Decolonial Practice
Where is the hope? What does it look like? Is the Christian church providing a hope that materializes in the grounding of people’s thriving? These questions posed the catalysts of this work where the author sets up a journey that parses the definition of hope within Christian theology as an ontological category of the human experience. Through ethnographic research and ecclesial study of diverse congregations in Puerto Rico the work moves from an articulation of context, hope, practice, and future to reveal its aim of liberation through a hope that can be sustainable in time and space. She analyzes the operations of political systems that suppress hope in the island. Weaving the theme of a theology of hope, with the fields of ecclesiology, memory studies, postcolonial and decolonial theory, liberation theology, and the study of social movements she builds a model that puts hope at the center of socio-economic practices and moves toward a recipe for a hope that is sustainable in practice.
The Challenge of Priestless Parishes
This book traces the origins of priestless regions of the Catholic Church in five Latin American countries and demonstrates that the situation was far more common than previously described.
Witchcraft and Welfare
Persecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities. Combining trance, dance, magic, and healing practices with expertise in the workings of the modern welfare state, they help lawyers win custody suits, sick employees resolve labor disability claims, single mothers apply for government housing, or corporation managers maximize their commercial skills. Drawing on extensive fieldwork among practicing brujos, this book presents a masterful...
