Racism and God-Talk: A Latino Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780814776100)

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
ISBN-10: 0814776108
ISBN-13: 9780814776100
Publisher: New York University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/19/2008
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.56w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 07/25/2008 pg. 17