United States Hispanic/Latino voices have emerged in the last ten years to become one of the strongest and most creative theological movements in the Americas. Fully ecumenical and organized in systematic, collaborative framework, this major volume features Hispanic theology's sources (the Bible, church history, cultural memory, literature, oral tradition, pentecostalism), loci (urban barrios, Puerto Rico, exile, liberation, social sciences, Latina feminists), and rich and vigorous expressions (mujerista theology, popular religion, theopoetics). Contributors include:Yamina ApolinarisGuilbert CadenasOrlando EspnFranciso Garca-TretoJusto GonzlezOtto MaduroElena Olazagasti-SegoviaHarold J. RecinosJos David RodrguezFernando F. SegoviaMaria Pilar AquinoAna Maria Daz-StevensIsmael GarciaRoberto GoizuetaAda Mara Isasi-DazDaisy MachadoSandra Mangual-RodrquezAna Maria PinedaJeanette RodrquezSamuel SolivanHispanic/Latino Theology not only celebrates the full flowering of U.S. Latino work, it also splendidly reveals the exciting possibilities and future shape of contextual theologies in close touch with the daily realities of struggling people.
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz was born and raised in La Habana, Cuba, and was Professor of Christian Ethics and Theology at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and author of En la Lucha: Elaborating a Mujerista Theology (revised edition, Fortress Press 2004) and La Lucha Continues-Mujerista Theology (2004). Fernando F. Segovia is Professor of New Testament and early Christian Literature at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, Tennessee.
Preface Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction PART ONE: SOURCES OF HISPANIC/LATINO THEOLOGY Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing:The Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Young, Bicultural Girl Elena Olazagasti-Segovia Kingdom Building in the Borderlands: The Church and Manifest Destiny Daisy L. Machado The Lesson of the Gibeonites: A Proposal for Dialogic Attention as a Strategy for Reading the Bible Francisco O. Garcia-Treto In the Image and Likeness of God: Literature as Theological Reflection Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens The Oral Tradition of a People: Forjadora de rostro y corazon Ana Maria Pineda Sangre llama a sangre: Cultural Memory as a Source of Theological Insight Jeanette Rodriguez Sources of a Hispanic/Latino American Theology: A Pentecostal Perspective Samuel Solivan PART TWO: LOCUS OF HISPANIC/LATINO THEOLOGY Notes toward a Sociology of Latina/o Religious Empowerment Otto Madurio The Social Location of Liberation Theology: From Latin America to the United States Gilbert R. Cadena The Barrio as the Locus of a New Church Harold J. Recinos In the World but not of It: Exile As Locus for a Theology of the Diaspora Fernando F. Segovia Theologiizing from a Puerto Rican Context Yamina Apolinaris and Sandra Mangual-Rogriguez The Collective "Dis-covery" of Our Own Power: Latina American Feminist Theology Maria Pilar Aquino PART THREE: EXPRESSIONS OF HISPANIC/LATINO THEOLOGY U.S. Hispanic Popular Catholicism as Theopoetics Roberto S. Goizueta A Theological-Ethical Analysis of Hispanic Struggles for Community Building in the United States Ismael Garcia Popular Catholicism: Alienation or Hope? Orlando O. Espin Un poquito de justicia-a Little Bit of Justice: A Mujerista Account of Justice Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Metamodern Aliens in Postmodern Jerusalem Justo L. Gonzalez Confessing Our Faith in Spanish: Challenge or Promise? Jose David Rodriguez Afterwords: Strangers No Longer Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Index
