The New Catholicity"Strongly recommended." Religious Studies Review In the 1970s and 1980s new theologies, called liberation, and local or contextual theologies, erupted where the Enlightenment theologies of Europe and North America failed to respond to peoples needs. Now, globalization sweeps over the world with technologies that compress time and space, where cultures homogenize even as new particularisms arise. Following on his widely acclaimed Constructing Local

prominent Roman Catholic theologians address the issue of white privilege

Stop and Think

It is a study of the influence of culture and religion - particularly of traditional African cultures and Christianity - on African women's lives

Gospel commentaries

an international network of specialists in the social and religious sciences

and others have much to teach Westerners

and African women on the meaning of eco-theological issues in their own contexts - and the implications they have for women in the first world

OSB (1929-2015) was a Benedictine monk and professor of History at St

They also earned her the enmity of land-grabbing ranchers who repeatedly threatened her

spiritual courage

exploring the first attempt by western European Christians to realize the universality of Christianity outside European culture

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