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The World Come of Age : An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (393 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190695408
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The World Come of AgeDDC classification:
  • 230.046
LOC classification:
  • BT83.57 .B374 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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