Barger, Lilian Calles.

The World Come of Age : An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (393 pages)

Cover -- The World Come of Age -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Origins -- 1. Religion and Cultural Crisis -- 2. The Political Is the Total -- 3. The Irony of America -- PART II Reconstructions -- 4. Liberatory Sensibilities -- 5. New Foundations -- 6. The Vitalism of Religion -- PART III Elaborations -- 7. A Salvific Social Order -- 8. Secularizing Religion -- 9. The Feminine Principle -- 10. A Culture of Solidarity -- PART IV Reverberations -- 11. A Tenuous Consensus -- 12. A New Orthodoxy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

A trans-American cultural history of ideas of how in the 1960s and 70s the first generation of liberation theologians conceptualize a radical political theology. Representing those marginalized by modern politics and religion due to race, class, or sex status liberationists redefined the theo-political space and set the stage for new expressions of religious activism.

9780190695408


Liberation theology.


Electronic books.

BT83.57 .B374 2018

230.046