The Cambridge Companion To Liberation Theology

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Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics and religion but not always adequately understood. The second edition of this Companion brings the story of the movement's continuing importance and impact up to date. Additional essays, which complement those in the original edition, expand upon the issues by dealing with gender and sexuality and the important matter of epistemology. In the light of a more conservative ethos in Roman Catholicism, and in theology generally, liberation theology is often said to have been an intellectual movement tied to a particular period of ecumenical and political theology. These essays indicate its continuing importance in different contexts and enable readers to locate its distinctive intellectual ethos within the evolving contextual and cultural concerns of theology and religious studies. This book will be of interest to students of theology as well as to sociologists, political theorists and historians. Cover Title Title - Full Copyright Contents Notes on Contributors Foreword to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Glossary Abbreviations Introduction: the theology of liberation Part I - Contemporary Liberation Theology 1 - The task and content of liberation theology 2 - ‘Action is the life of all’: the praxis-based epistemology of liberation theology 3 - Liberation theology in Asia 4 - Black theology 5 - Feminist theology: a critical theology of liberation 6 - Demythologising liberation theology: reflections on power, poverty and sexuality Part II - Aspects of Liberation Theology 7 - The origins and character of the base ecclesial community: a Brazilian perspective 8 - The Bible and the poor: a new way of doing theology 9 - Liberation and reconstruction: the unfinished agenda Part III - Analysis and Criticism 10 - Liberation theology and the Roman Catholic Church 11 - Marxism, liberation theology and the way of negation 12 - The economics of liberation theology 13 - Political theology, tradition and modernity 14 - Globalising liberation theology: the American context, and coda Epilogue: the future of liberation theology Select bibliography Index Series list