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Mestizaje: (re)mapping race, culture, and faith in Latina/o Catholicism

Néstor Medina c2009 © Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, Inc.
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  • 9781570758348 (paper)
  • 9781608333615 (ebook)
Subject
  • Religion
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page vii)
  • Introduction (page ix)
  • 1. Mestizaje as a Locus Theologicus: The Contributions of U.S. Latina/o Theologians to the Task of Doing Theology (page 1)
    • Setting the Context (page 3)
    • Theological Sketch: The Adoption of Mestizaje in Theology (page 6)
    • Mestizaje as a Theological Category (page 9)
  • 2. U.S. Latino/a Theology and the Discourse(s) of Mestizaje (page 23)
    • Mestizaje as a Locus of Theological Reflection: Virgilio Elizondo (page 26)
    • Mestizaje as the Concrete Religious Experience of the People: Roberto Goizueta (page 35)
    • Mestizaje as Source and Foundation of Latina Feminist Theology: María Pilar Aquino (page 43)
    • Mestizaje as an Ethical-Moral Choice: Ada María Isasi-Díaz and Mujerista Theology (page 51)
  • 3. Mestizaje among Mexican American Chicano/a Scholars (page 60)
    • Setting the Context: Historical Background (page 61)
    • Messianic Synthesis: Vasconcelos's Paradigm of Mestizaje as La raza cósmica (page 63)
    • The Chicano/a Identity Construction and Vasconcelos (page 68)
    • Gloria Anzaldúa: La conciencia de la mestiza (page 71)
  • 4. The Shifting Shapes of Mestizaje: Navigating the Contested Spaces of Mestizaje Discourse(s) (page 81)
    • The Continuing Debates on Mestizaje among U.S. Latina/o Theologians (page 83)
    • The Myth of Mestizaje as Inclusion: Resistance from the Margins (page 90)
  • 5. The Future of U.S. Latina/o Theology: Implications (page 106)
    • The Ambiguous Web of Mestizaje and the Reality of Heterogeneity (page 107)
    • Rereading Our Lady of Guadalupe: Unmasking the Violence of Mestizaje (page 119)
    • Our Lady of Guadalupe: The Mestizo Symbol of the Mexican Americans/Chicanos/as (page 120)
    • The Diverse Ethnocultural and Religious Identities of the Latina/o People: Mestizaje and Intra-Latina/o Interreligious Interculturalism (page 130)
  • Conlcusion: Broadening the Horizons of U.S. Latina/o Theology (page 135)
  • Notes (page 145)
  • Index (page 195)
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