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Laura Robson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Palestinian Liberation Theology, Muslim–Christian relations and the Arab–Israeli conflict
Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 2010Co-Authors: Laura RobsonAbstract:This article offers an investigation of the history and intellectual development of Palestinian Liberation Theology. It focuses in particular on the ways in which the movement's founding writers both made use of and departed from the Latin American model to produce a new Theology firmly grounded in specific, local historical and political conditions; the importance of the first intifada for the genesis of this new Palestinian version of Liberation Theology; and the effort by Palestinian Liberation theologians to recast the relationship between Christianity and Islam in the modern Israeli/Palestinian context. It argues that Palestinian Liberation Theology has become an important intellectual movement among Palestinian Christian elites who seek to convince both Western Christians and Middle Eastern Muslims of a Christian theological justification for a political solution to the Palestinian plight.
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palestinian Liberation Theology muslim christian relations and the arab israeli conflict
Islam and Christian-muslim Relations, 2010Co-Authors: Laura RobsonAbstract:This article offers an investigation of the history and intellectual development of Palestinian Liberation Theology. It focuses in particular on the ways in which the movement's founding writers both made use of and departed from the Latin American model to produce a new Theology firmly grounded in specific, local historical and political conditions; the importance of the first intifada for the genesis of this new Palestinian version of Liberation Theology; and the effort by Palestinian Liberation theologians to recast the relationship between Christianity and Islam in the modern Israeli/Palestinian context. It argues that Palestinian Liberation Theology has become an important intellectual movement among Palestinian Christian elites who seek to convince both Western Christians and Middle Eastern Muslims of a Christian theological justification for a political solution to the Palestinian plight.
Albert Doja - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Confraternal religion: from Liberation Theology to political reversal
History and Anthropology, 2003Co-Authors: Albert DojaAbstract:Heterodox mystics and heretics of any kind become sometimes dangerous and other times reliable depending on political situations, as it was the case with Bektashis in Ottoman Anatolia or in early independent Albania. The historical anthropology perspective taken in this article appears helpful in revealing that Bektashism is probably the mystical order of Islam that best exemplifies a transformational pattern from a theological and ideological as well as cultural, social and political, point of view. The system of beliefs and practices related to Bektashism seems to correspond to a kind of Liberation Theology, whereas the structure of Bektashi groups corresponds more or less to the type of religious organization conventionally known as "charismatic groups". It becomes understandable, therefore, that their spiritual tendency can meet social, cultural and national perspectives. In turn, when the members of the previously persecuted religious minority have already acquired a degree of religious and political respectability within society at large, the doctrines of heterodoxy and Liberation Theology fade into the background. In the end, the heirs of the heterodox promoters of spiritual reform and social movement turn into followers and faithful defenders of a legitimate authority. They become the spokespeople for an institutionalized orthodoxy whose support will be sought by the political regime.
Stefan Silber - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Latin American Liberation Theology as a Transforming Political Theology
Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology, 2018Co-Authors: Stefan SilberAbstract:Latin American Liberation Theology is a transforming Theology in two senses: It is able to transform reality, as it has shown in these past decades, and it is transforming itself. This article shows how both types of meaning interweave. The transformations of Liberation Theology enable it to continuously adapt itself to new challenges in history. At present, this global theological movement is diversifying, or even fragmenting, in order to propose creative and effective solutions to different problems. Specifically, the Option for the Poor, which is at Liberation Theology’s core, currently presents profound challenges to European and Western theologies.
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Latin American Liberation Theology as a Transforming Political Theology: Diversity, Fragmentarity, Relevance
2018Co-Authors: Stefan SilberAbstract:Latin American Liberation Theology is a transforming Theology in two senses: It is able to transform reality, as it has shown in these past decades, and it is transforming itself. This article shows how both types of meaning interweave. The transformations of Liberation Theology enable it to continuously adapt itself to new challenges in history. At present, this global theological movement is diversifying, or even fragmenting, in order to propose creative and effective solutions to different problems. Specifically, the Option for the Poor, which is at Liberation Theology’s core, currently presents profound challenges to European and Western theologies.
Peter Burns - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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THE PROBLEM OF SOCIALISM IN Liberation Theology
Theological Studies, 1992Co-Authors: Peter BurnsAbstract:F ITS inception in the late 1960s Latin American Liberation Theology has been the subject of much controversy. Unquestionably one major factor in generating the heat surrounding the Liberation debate has been the tendency, common to both its proponents and critics, to regard Liberation Theology as bound up with an unmistakeably left-wing political stance. Some have gone as far as to pronounce it Marxism pure and simple. This latter claim is one I reject. Nor do I accept that Liberation Theology is reducible to left-wing politics, even if conceived more broadly than Marxism as such. But there is a strong case to be made that a left-wing political posture, though somewhat indeterminate, has been a marked feature of Liberation Theology. In particular, many Liberation theologians have at various times and in various ways made explicit a preference for socialism over capitalism. In this article I will explore the possible meanings of this preference, the reasons adduced for it, and some of the criticisms made of it. I will confine my discussion to the issue of what might be called "the socialist option," and will not examine the related but separable issues of the use in Liberation Theology of Marxism and of dependency theory. At first sight this might appear an unwise or unworkable separation, since Marxism is obviously a major source of inspiration for much socialist thinking, and has had some influence on Liberation Theology; and dependency theory played an important role in the ''break" with traditional Catholic approaches to social ethics which made Liberation Theology stand out as a novel and distinct theological movement. I would defend the separation on several grounds: that the acceptance of socialism does not depend on a prior evaluation of the core theory in Marxism, namely historical materialism; that few if any Liberation theologians appear to subscribe to that core theory in any case, at least in anything like its classical form; and that analogous remarks can be made substituting dependency theory for Marxism.
Shari J Stenberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Liberation Theology and liberatory pedagogies renewing the dialogue
College English, 2006Co-Authors: Shari J StenbergAbstract:In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education column, Stanley Fish describes a phone call he received after the death of Jacques Derrida from a reporter who was curious as to what would succeed high theory as the "center of energy in the academy." "I answered like a shot," Fish writes, "religion" (1). For many, Fish's prophecy might create a feeling of uneasiness; after all, in academic culture, religious ideologies are often considered hindrances to?not ve hicles for?critical thought. This feeling may be especially true in regard to Chris tianity, which is often conflated with conservative politics and fundamentalism both in and outside of the academy. But those of us who espouse critical pedagogy and embrace Paulo Freire's visions of praxis and conscientization work out of a tradition, often unknowingly, with deep ties to religious faith. While many are familiar with Freire's roots in Marxism, the fact that his vision relies as much upon Catholicism and Liberation Theology is often overlooked in critical pedagogy discourse (Daniell; Bizzell; Goodburn). Liberation Theology calls Chris tians from all social classes to enact the vision of the gospels in order to end oppres sive class structures (Perkins 590). While this goal is certainly not inconsistent with those of leftist academics, the source?the Christian gospels?may mark it as sus pect. Consequently, Priscilla Perkins argues, many U.S. leftist academics see "Freire's own critical Catholicism [. . .] in vestigial terms, at best the political equivalent of tonsils, at worst a birthmark that disfigured and obscured his theories" (590). But there are good reasons for remembering the tradition of Liberation theol ogy in Freire's work and for renewing the ties between Liberation Theology and