Decolonizing Liberation Theologies

Nicolás Panotto is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Arturo Prat University, Chile, and founder and director of the educational organization Otros Cruces. Luis Martínez Andrade holds a PhD in sociology from the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), France.

• Introduction.- Part I Legacies, Testimonies and Stories.- 50 Years of Latin American Liberation Theology.- Are the Poor Human Beings? Neoliberalism and Theology.- Liberation Theology and Its Fruits. Some Bibliographical Milestones.- Liberation Theology and Other Theologies in Latin America: Challenges for Today.- Part II Liberation In Contextual Focus.- The Weavings of Ancestral Spiritualities in Indian/Indigenous Theologies as Paths to Liberation.- The Noble House of La Virtual QTL. Voguing Queer Liberation Theologies in Latin America Since Marcella Althaus-Reid.- Islamic Liberation Theology and the Decolonial Turn: A Historical and Theoretical Introduction.- Liberation Themes in Latin American Literatures: The Case of Changó el gran putas by Manuel Zapata Olivella.- Liberalism, Liberation Theology, or Decolonial Theology? North American Latinx Theologies at the Crossroads of Ambivalence.- History, Memory, and Forgetting: Epistemological Challenges for Latin American Biblical-Theological Studies.- Part III Critical Perspectives.- The Current Status of Latin American Liberation Theology.- Other Worlds, Other Epistemes, Other Subjects: The Flame (Never Extinguished) of Latin American Liberation Theologies.- Part IV Looking to the Future.- Looking Back and Looking Forward from the Margin of the Margins.- Looking Back and Looking Forward from the Underside of History.

“Panotto and Martínez Andrade gathered contributions from a variety of voices in Latin American liberation theologies (LALT) that represent and engage its origins, contemporary challenges and trends, and possible futures from decolonial/decolonizing lenses. … Through its fourteen essays readers encounter multidimensional snapshots that assess the trajectory of LALT since the 1960s … and that reassess LALT’s potential for furthering liberatory theories, critiques, and practices that canconcretely contribute to peoples’ and nature’s struggles today and into the future.” (ReOrient, October 17, 2024)