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How does the industrialization of food objectify humanity and dissociate us from nature? In Food Fight, a global panel of researchers and activists lay bare the devasting histories and current…
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Miguel A. De La Torre
This book provides a critical assessment of Jose Marti, relying primarily on his own writings. While Marti is influential in the construction of Cuban socio-philosophical thought, De La Torre explores…
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Miguel De La Torre
The purpose of this handbook is to introduce the reader to Christian concepts from the perspective of U.S. marginalized communities. It explores the interrelationship between religion, community, and culture in…
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This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santeria - a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its…
Argues that Marti’s religious views, which at first glance might appear outdated and irrelevant, are actually critical to understanding his social vision. Miguel De La Torre has authored the most…
Essays by religious scholars and activists assess the lessons of the Trump era, both for the nation and the religious community –
As climate change begins to make parts of the Earth uninhabitable, people are forced to migrate. This book grapples with the disparate impacts of climate change on poor nations and…
Miguel A. De la Torre
Reveals how we can achieve reconciliation. This book describes the significant role that can be played by the under-represented and oppressed as instruments of reconciliation.
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Authors write from the perspective of their own community, a and include prominent theologians, including Jorge Aquino, Jonathan Tan, Joerge Rieger, and Sharon Betcher. Each essay includes resources for further…
Many people of faith have identified the election of Donald Trump as a confessional crisis-a moment that calls into question the deepest meaning of our religious claims and values. This…
Miguel A de la Torre
The current immigration crisis on our southern borders is usually debated from a safe distance. Politicians create a fear of the migrant to garner votes, while academicians pontificate on the…
A polemic against white Christian nationalism in twenty-first century America –
This survey text for religious ethics and theological ethics courses explores how ethical concepts defined as liberationist, which initially was a Latin American Catholic phenomenon, is presently manifest around the…
This encyclopedia is the first comprehensive survey of Hispanic American religiosity, contextualizing the roles of Latino and Latina Americans within U.S. religious culture. Spanning two volumes, Hispanic American Religious Cultures…
"Develops the hermeneutic circle of liberation theology for ethical action"--
Liberation theology emphasizes the Christian mission to bring justice to the poor and oppressed. As a part of Christian theology, it has been most frequently associated with the Catholic Church…
This volume in the Belief series provides a new and interesting theological interpretation of Genesis through the themes of liberation and the concerns of the poor and marginalized.
Here, the author seeks to develop a constructive conversation on immigration by examining significant issues and by presenting first-person accounts of the experiences of immigration.
What is legitimized and normalized by the discrimination and institutionalized violence the de la Cruz family is forced to face? Miguelito might survive in his new adopted country, but at…
A call for American Christianity to stand in solidarity with marginalized people and end its complicity with white supremacy –
This introduction focuses on how issues involving race, class, and gender influence our understanding of the Bible.Describing how standard readings of the Bible are not always acceptable to people or…
In this helpful addition to the Armchair Theologians series, Miguel A. De La Torre provides a concise overview of the global religious movement known as liberation theology that focuses on…
Shows how Exilic Cubans, a once marginalized group, have risen to power and privilege - distinguishing themselves from other Hispanic communities in the United States - and how religion has…
A Lily Among the Thorns gives Christians a new way of thinking about sexuality. Author Miguel De La Torre, a well-respected ethicist and professor known for his innovative readings of…
Miguel A. De LA Torre
In this brief book, the author calls for white, evangelical Christians in the United States to reflect on and change their ways, to repent the racism, classism, sexism, and homophobia…
This book will attempt to explore faith-based responses to unending injustices by embracing the reality of hopelessness. It rejects the pontifications of some salvation history that move the faithful toward…
A groundbreaking corrective work, Latina/o Social Ethics strives to create a liberative ethical approach to the Hispanic experience by using its own tools and materials.
Dr Miguel A De La Torre
A revised and expanded edition of the text that presents a justice-based ethics that avails itself of the perspectives and experiences of those on the margins.
For two thousand years, Christianity has been wrong about sex. To this day Christians grapple with defining gender, sexism, heterosexism, and what constitutes healthy sex. Miguel A. De La Torre–noted…
Hanz Gutierrez Salazar
The Bible itself generates in the reader legitimate doubts. Those doubts do not concern wrong readings but rather the correct ones because every correct reading is always partial and unilateral…
As a part of Christian theology, liberation theology has been most frequently associated with the Catholic Church in Latin America. This groundbreaking work seeks to identify how the theological concepts…
Miguel A. De La Torre,Albert Hernandez
The figure of Satan has for centuries embodied or incarnated absolute evil. Existing alongside more intellectualist interpretations of evil, Satan has figured largely in Christian practices, devotions, popular notions of…
Nell Becker Sweeden
The practice of Christian hospitality reaches back to the early centuries of Christian life as well as deep into Jewish history, life, and Scripture. This practice is alive today in…
Gonna Trouble the Water considers the sacred nature of water and the ways in which it is weaponized against non-white communities. Firmly grounded at the intersection of environmentalism and racism…
Edwin David Aponte,Miguel A. De La Torre
The fundamental principles and perspectives with which Latinx communities from different faith traditions do theology are articulated –
How should Origen, Anselm, Luther, Wesley, Kierkegaard, Barth, and Whitehead be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to liberation theology…
How should Augustine, Aquinas, Bonhoeffer, Kant, Nietzsche, and Plato be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics…
Handbook of Latino/a Theologies explores the varied theological, ecclesiastical, spiritual, and cultural expressions associated with the term ‘Latino/a or Hispanic theology.’ There is no single definition of Hispanic/Latino theology, but…
Miguel A. De La Torre, professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies
The Politics of Jesus is a powerful new biography of Jesus told from the margins. Renowned ethicist Miguel De La Torre argues that we all create Jesus in our own…
The Politics of Jesus is a powerful new search for Jesus from the margins. Highlighting the oppression inherent in the dominant image of Jesus, the book rejects Jesus for Jesus-a…
Miguel Montiel,Yvonne de la Torre Montiel
Captures the largely forgotten history of courage and heartbreak of forty-five women who emigrated to the United States during the era of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. These oral histories let…
Miguel Mir Ignatius,Juan Jose De La Torre
This Book Is In Spanish. Due to the very old age and scarcity of this book, many of the pages may be hard to read due to the blurring of…
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