Engaging coloniality : the liberative story of Christianity in Latin America / edited by Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. and Mark A. Lamport.
| Other author | Barreto, Raimundo, editor. |
| Other author | Lamport, Mark A., editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock Publishers, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xlvi, 257 pages : illustrations (charts), map ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Global Story of Christianity series ; Global story of Christianity series ; v. 5. ^A1465100 |
| Contents | Series introduction / Dana L. Robert -- Preface: Latin America / Gina A. Zurlo, Mark A. Lamport -- Introduction / Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. -- Part 1. The story of Christianity narrated in historical context : colonial encounters, negotiations, and contestations. -- The Christianization of the Nahuas and the Nahuatilization of Christianity / Nadia Marin-Guadarrama -- Women's religiosity in New Spain colonial Catholicism / Jessica Delgado -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz : a seventeenth-Century Mexican nun and poet through the lenses of ecofeminism / Theresa A. Yugar -- Afro-Latin American religious practices in the Iberian colonies / Joan Cameron Bristol -- Part 2. The story of Christianity expressed in a grand church family mosaic : national states and the rise of modern Christianity. -- Christianity, nationalism, and anticlericalism in nineteenth-century Latin America / Francisco J. Pelaez-Diaz -- The making of Protestantism in Latin America / Pedro Feitoza -- Christianity and social movements in Latin America / Nicolas Panotto -- Hierarchy and ritual : a comparative study of Candomble, Umbanda, and neo-Pentecostal churches / Luiz C. Nascimento -- Theoguilombism : perspectives for an Afro-Brazilian Christianity / Cleusa Caldeira -- Part 3. The story of Christianity encounters twenty-first-century issues -- Christian unity and reconciliation : a Latin American decolonial contribution / Raimundo C. Barreto Jr. -- The indigenous church : the changing face of liberation Christianity in Latin America / Graciela Chamorro -- Latin American Pentecostalism as popular religion / Angel D. Santiago-Vendrell -- Christianity, gender, and ecology in Abya Yala / Sandra Duarte de Souza -- Christianity on the move : migratory Christianity in and from Latin America / Joao B. Chaves -- Timeline : Latin America and the Caribbean / Brett Knowles. |
| Abstract | "The fifteen chapters of Engaging Coloniality tell a complex and multifaceted story of Latin American Christianity. Latin America was the first region of the colonized world to be Christianized. As no form of Christianity preexisted the colonial invasion of Latin America, no Latin American Christian story can be told without reference to colonialism. Throughout its five-hundred-year history in Latin America, Christianity has taken multiple forms. This history is presented as in no other volume available in English. Primarily non-Eurocentric perspectives alternate between continuity and transformations. Rather than emphasizing denominational branches, this volume focuses on liberative, decolonial, and intercultural movements. This book is cutting-edge scholarship on Latin American religion and theology, and the featured contributors represent the extent of a continent where almost six hundred million Christians live today. Latin American Christian identity has never been homogeneous, and the volume describes countless Christian spiritualities and practices resulting from continuous encounters, tensions, and negotiations over five centuries. These encounters have not taken place in a historical vacuum but as part of a broader history in which visible and invisible power disparities still inform the limits, challenges, and promises of the Christian experiment in the region." -- Publisher, page four of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781666730005 |
| ISBN | 1666730009 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781666720983 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1666720984 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |