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Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword: Theology in the footsteps of the martyrs
- The legacy of the martyrs commits us
- The risk of squandering this legacy
- The method of doing theology in the footsteps of the martyrs
- To conclude
- Notes
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: As it was in the beginning?
- Pablo Bradbury and Niall H. D. Geraghty
- Notes
- References
- 1. Conflict and ecclesiology: Obedience, institutionality and people of God in the Movement of Priests for the Third World
- Pablo Bradbury
- Conflict and privilege
- Verticality and horizontality
- Containment and transgression
- Fragmentation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 2. Legacies of the ‘bridge man’: Catholic accompaniment, inter-class relations and the classification of surplus in Montevideo
- Patrick O’Hare
- Those who come bearing gifts
- Roots of Catholic confluence in the Cruz
- Acompañamiento amid structural sin: between reciprocity and unconditional charity
- Bridges, networks and the (in)dignity of waste
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 3. Orlando Fals Borda’s participatory action research: At and beyond the crossroads of Camilo Torres’s neo-socialism and liberation theology
- Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo
- From critique of violence to rebellious social science
- Camilo Torres’s pluralism and the liberation social science tradition
- Engaged research and the theological question of social ethics
- In search of a methodological approach to Praxis
- PAR and liberation theology: epistemological differences and common challenges
- Notes
- References
- 4. The impact of liberation theology in the Latin American built environment
- Fernando Luiz Lara
- Participatory processes rising in the 1960s
- Abstraction as a tool for privilege
- Participatory processes in Latin American architecture
- Liberation theology and Paulo Freire as antidotes to abstraction
- Colectivos and the heritage of liberation theology
- Notes
- References
- 5. When liberation theology met human rights
- Anna Grimaldi
- Introduction
- Brazil’s liberation theology and transnational human rights
- Developing the rights of the poor
- Friends and networks of the liberationist mission
- The incidental exile of liberation theology
- Dom Hélder Câmara’s European tour
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 6. ‘Women, the key to liberation?’: A feminist theology of liberation at the Catholic women’s conference at Puebla
- Natalie Gasparowicz
- Introduction
- Literature review
- Background
- The Latin American woman as subject
- Population politics, the pill and the future of liberation
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 7. Towards the possibility of an ecofeminist political theology: The case of the Con-spirando collective
- Ely Orrego Torres
- Women’s bodies and Radical Evil
- Ecofeminist answers to a post-secular world
- The case of the Con-spirando collective: an ecofeminist alternative in a post-secular world
- Final reflections
- Notes
- References
- Afterword. Contemporary witnesses to life and liberation: The persistent and evolving reality of Latin American martyrdom
- Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo
- Latin American martyrdom: as it was in the beginning?
- The persistence of Latin American martyrdom: from origins to contemporary reality
- The theological challenge of contemporary martyrdom
- Creative synchronicity with the ‘living martyrs’ of today
- Notes
- References
- Index