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urn:uuid:6a7af882-8af7-42c4-ba54-d1d9040e6771 03 15 9781915249630 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Liberation Theology and Praxis in Contemporary Latin America As it Was in the Beginning? 1 B01 Pablo Bradbury Pablo Bradbury holds a PhD in History from the University of Liverpool, with a thesis on the emergence and mobilisation of liberation Christianity in Argentina and in particular its political responses to state terrorism. His research more broadly focuses on left-wing political cultures and social movements during Latin America’s Cold War, exploring religion, international solidarity and strategies for resisting state repression. He currently teaches at the University of Greenwich. 2 B01 Niall H.D. Geraghty Niall H.D. Geraghty is Associate Professor in Latin American Cultural Studies at University College London. Niall’s first book was The Polyphonic Machine: Capitalism, Political Violence, and Resistance in Contemporary Argentine Literature (University of Pittsburgh Press: 2019). He has published articles and book chapters on literature and film from Latin America, with a particular interest in memory, urban culture, and religion in the region. He is currently working on a project involving a radical re-examination of the work of Argentine artist León Ferrari (1920–2013) which also explores the interrelations between politics and religion in twentieth-century Argentina, and the potential correlations between contemporary philosophy and liberation theology. 01 eng 12 HRCM 23 Languages, Cultures and Societies ⇒ Latin American and Caribbean Studies 23 liberationist 10 REL067120 12 1KL 23 Christianity 10 HIS024000 10 5.0.0.0.0.0.0 23 theologian 23 religious practice 23 social movement 23 South America 23 Catholic Church 23 lived experience 23 human rights 23 Cold War 23 political 23 ecology 01 06 03 00 This interdisciplinary volume brings together approaches from history, theology, cultural studies, architecture, sociology, and anthropology to reevaluate the legacy and significance of liberation theology in Latin America.Liberation theology was born in the 1960s at a time of Church renewal and socio-economic ferment, as many sought radical solutions to the perceived exhaustion of developmentalist projects and the institutionalised violence of capitalism and dependency. By focussing on praxis – the lived experiences, spiritual, and embodied practices of those engaged in social action – the book challenges the assumption that liberation theology had reached its twilight by the late 1970s. Indeed, it demonstrates that liberationist Christianity was more diverse and internally conflicted, more widely resonant outside ecclesial confines, and more interconnected over time, than often allowed.The chapters provide new perspectives on liberationist engagements with, and influence on, ecclesiology, Participatory Action Research, architecture and urbanism, feminism, human rights, ecofeminist political theology, and more, from the 1960s to the present moment in Latin America. Drawing these threads together, the book invites us to reconsider liberation theology’s praxis in retrospect and the continuities and changes that reach into the present day. 04 00 <ul> <li> Foreword: Theology in the Footsteps of the Martyrs Martha Zechmeister CJ </li> <li> Introduction: As it was in the Beginning? Pablo Bradbury and Niall Geraghty </li> <li> 1 Conflict and Ecclesiology: Obedience, Institutionality and People of God in the Movement of Priests for the Third World Pablo Bradbury </li> <li> 2 Legacies of the “Bridge-man”: Catholic Accompaniment, Inter-class Relations and the Classification of Surplus in Montevideo Patrick O’Hare </li> <li> 3 Orlando Fals-Borda’s Participatory Action Research: At and Beyond the Crossroads of Camilo Torres’s Neo-socialism and Liberation Theology Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo </li> <li> 4 The Impact of Liberation Theology in the Latin American Built Environment Fernando Luiz Lara </li> <li> 5 When Liberation Theology Met Human Rights Anna Grimaldi </li> <li> 6 “Women, The Key to Liberation?”: A Feminist Theology of Liberation at the Catholic Women’s Conference at Puebla Natalie Gasparowicz </li> <li> 7 Towards the Possibility of an Ecofeminist Political Theology: The Case of Collective Con-spirando Ely Orrego-Torres </li> <li> Afterword: Contemporary Witnesses to Life and Liberation: The Persistent Reality of Latin American Martyrdom as an Ever-Evolving Challenge to Liberation Theologies Today Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo </li> </ul> University of London Press 01 University of London Press 04 01 20250220 02 WORLD 06 15 9781915249616 06 15 9781915249593 06 15 9781915249630 06 15 9781915249623 06 15 9781915249647 WORLD 09 University of London Press 20 01