The Reemergence of Liberation Theologies

Introduction; Thia Cooper 1. Resisting Imperial Peace: Theological Reflections; Dwight Hopkins 2. Context is What Hurts: Rethinking Contextual Theology in Light of Empire and Economics; Joerg Rieger 3.Theology, Spirit and the Imperial Economic System;Jung Mo Sung 4.The Hermeneutics of Bones: Liberation Theology for the Twenty-first Century – Mario Aguilar 5.A U.S. Theology of Letting Go; Rosemary Radford Ruether 6.Dialogic Mediations: Reflections on the Hopeful Future of U.S. Liberation Theology; Benjamin Valentin 7. American Indian Liberation: Paddling a Canoe Upstream; Tink Tinker 8.Uninterrogated Coloredness and its Kin; Emilie Townes 9.Rethinking Liberation: Toward a Canadian Latin@ Theology; Nestor Medina 10.Key Issues for Liberation Theology Today: Intercultural Gender Theology Controversial Dialogues on Gender and Theology between Women and Men, and Human Rights; Heike Walz 11.The Revolution in the Arab World. Liberation: The Promise and the Illusion. A Palestinian Christian Perspective; Mitri Raheb 12.Liberation Theology and Indigenous People; Wati Longchar 13.Embodied Theology: Indigenous Wisdom as Liberation; Sylvia Marcos 14.What does liberation theology mean in and for the twenty-first century?; Jenny Plane Te Paa 15.The Practice of Liberation Theology in the Twenty-First Century; Ivan Petrella 16.Popular Messianism, Complicity and the Continued Relevance of Liberation Theology; Jeremy Ian Kirk 17.Toward a Twenty-first Century Black Liberation Ethic: A Marxist Reclamation of Ontological Blackness; Charlene Sinclair 18.A Christian Liberationist Response to the Crisis at the United States – Mexico Border; William A. Walker, II 19.Doing Liberation Theology as a Resistive Performance; Malik Sales 20.Conclusion; Thia Cooper Further Suggested Readings