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The Feast of the Uninvited: Popular Religion, Liberation, Hybridity

By Mario Bellemare

Book information

Publisher
Toronto School of Theology
Year
2008
ISBN
9780494432112
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18642058 bytes)
Series
PhD Dissertation in Theology
Pages
335+x\346
Topic
Religion
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2020-12-10 16:59:59
Theology; Teología; Teología cristiana; Christian

Description

This thesis examines how some Latin American and Caribbean liberation theologians rooted their theologies in popular religion. My consideration of these theologians is framed through a liberationist and postcolonial perspective. This thesis will argue that the everyday religious and symbolic language of ordinary people-those rituals, pilgrimages, prayers, fiestas, and processions that have been studied under the term popular religion-has been central to the development of Latin American liberation theologies in the last thirty-five years. Popular religion has been an area of theological inquiry that has opened up new possibilities and trajectories for liberation theologies within the changing context of the region, especially as they relate to issues of religious and cultural pluralism.

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