Oehri, N: Landscapes of Liberation

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-94-6270-374-2
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 485 g

Reihe: Leuven Studies in Mission and Modernity

The reception of liberation theology in
Andean America
Catholic mission from the mid-20th century
onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent
critique of the colonial power matrix to which the Church belonged. Missionary
movements to Latin America coincided with visions for a progressive, radically transformative
church.

Landscapes of Liberation expands scholarship into liberation theology’s reception in Andean
America and critically examines the interplay of the Catholic Church as a
global institution with parishes as local actors. Through source material from
both sides of the Atlantic, this book charts how a transnational network of
pastoral agents and laypeople in Peru’s southern highlands claimed mission and
development as intertwined tenets of spiritual and social life throughout three
decades of agrarian reform, activism, and social conflict. Ultimately, this
book reveals how transformative theories for rural development yield contingent
transformations: concrete change, yet contested liberation.

Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oehri, Noah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I. MODERNIZING CATHOLICISM (1943-1968)

1 ‘Compulsive Modernization’
2 Mission in Progress
3 Pastors on Pastures

PART II: LIBERATING EVANGELIZATION (1968-1980)

4 Liberation and Revolution
5 Anthropological Concerns
6 Opting for the Peasantry

PART III: MOBILIZING FAITH (1980-1988)

7 A Third Path
8 Land of Communities

Conclusion
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Oehri, Noah
Noah Oehri is an associate researcher at the Institute of History of the University of Bern.