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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453993503321

Autore

Rodríguez Rubén Rosario

Titolo

Racism and God-talk [[electronic resource] ] : a Latino/a perspective / / Rubén Rosario Rodríguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8147-7628-0

0-8147-7736-8

81-477-6280-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Disciplina

277.0089

Soggetti

Racism - Religious aspects - Christianity

Race relations - Religious aspects - Christianity

Racism - North America

Theology - Latin America

Theology - North America

Electronic books.

North America Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-290) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Beyond Black and White: understanding race in North America -- Exploring Mestizaje as theological metaphor -- The public relevance of theology -- Guadalupe: Imago Dei reconsidered -- The Mestizo Christ -- The spirit of community -- Conclusion: toward a Mestizo church.

Sommario/riassunto

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 pers