Racism and God-Talk: A Latino/a Perspective

2011 Winner of the Book Awards Contest in the Discipline of Theology Presented by Alpha Sigma Nu

The apostle Paul wrote that All of you are one in Christ Jesus. Given Paul's vision of God's kingdom defined by the breakdown of all distinctions and relationships of domination--no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female--how do we make sense of ethnic particularity within the church's theological formulations?

Racism and God-Talk explores the biblical and religious dimensions of North American racism while highlighting examples of resistance within the Christian religious tradition. Social historians have seldom analyzed the problematic of race from a primarily theological perspective. This volume undertakes a critical examination of explicitly theological and confessional perspectives for understanding and transforming North American racism.

Rosario Rodriguez offers insights from Latino/a theology for broader scholarly and social discussions concerning racism, borders, and immigration. The first to analyze race and racism from a Latino/a theological perspective, the volume makes use of a broadened conceptualization of mestizaje, or mutual cultural exchange, to challenge the church to recognize the effects of racial and ethnic particularity in all theological construction.

Author: Ruben Rosario Rodriguez
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 07/19/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.83w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780814776117

About the Author
Rodriguez, Ruben Rosario: - Rubén Rosario Rodríguez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. He is the co-author of Teología: Latino/a Contributions to Systematic Theology.