Wading through many voices : toward a theology of public conversation / edited by Harold J. Recinos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Recinos, Harold J. (Harold Joseph), 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and culture.

Multiculturalism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Multiculturalism.

Ethnicity--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Ethnicity.

Church and minorities--United States.

Church and minorities.

United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 380 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2011]

Summary:

Wading through Many Voices brings together the voices of Latino/a, African American, Asian American, Native American, and Euro-American scholars to produce a dialogue of public theology: how faith-communities, divided by race, class, ethnicity, and gender, can find a common ground for life together.

Contents:

Introduction / Harold J. Recinos

Expanding our academic publics: Latino/a theology, religious studies, and Latin American studies / Michelle A. Gonzalez

Response to Michelle Gonzalez / Marcia Y. Riggs

Escaping the polarity of race versus gender and ethnicity / Marcia Y. Riggs

Response to Marcia Riggs / Michelle A. Gonzalez

Global hegemonic power, democracy and the theological praxis of the subaltern multitude / Eleazar S. Fernández

Response to Eleazar S. Fernández: otro(s) mundo(s) zurdo(s) / María Teresa Dávila

Role of Latino/a ethics in the public square: upholding and challenging "the good" in a pluralistic society / María Teresa Dávila

Response to María Teresa Dávila / Eleazar S. Fernández

Pluralist separatism and community / Jace Weaver

Response to Jace Weaver / Luis Leon

American prophecy: Cesar Chavez in light of Martin Luther King and Gandhi / Luis Leon

Response to Luis Leon / Jace Weaver

"Salvation and transformation": Latino evangelical political activism and the struggle over comprehensive immigration reform / Gastón Espinosa

Response to Gastón Espinosa / Andrew Sung Park

Theology of enhancement: multiculturality in an Asian American perspective / Andrew Sung Park

Response to Andrew Sung Park / Gastón Espinosa

Is America possible? The land that never has been: democratic hope and creative exchange / Victor Anderson

Response to Victor Anderson / David Sánchez

Foregrounding our apocalyptic heritage in hopes of domesticating it: creating a postapocalyptic society in a plural world / David Sánchez

Response to David Sánchez / Victor Anderson

"Isn't life more than food?" Migrant farm work as a challenge to Latino/a public theology / Nancy Bedford

Response to Nancy Bedford / Mark Lewis Taylor

Beyond only difference: necropolitics, racialized regimes, and U.S. public theology / Mark Lewis Taylor

Response to Mark Lewis Taylor / Nancy Bedford

American Indians, conquest, the Christian story, and invasive nation-building / Tink Tinker

Response to Tink Tinker / Lara Medina

Nepantla spirituality: an emancipative vision for inclusion / Lara Medina

Response to Lara Medina / Tink Tinker.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442205833

1442205830

9781442205857

1442205857

OCLC:

681481557