A Christian Perspective on Islamic Concepts of Jihad, Iman And Islam in the Context of Mindanao Peace Process by Jerson Benia Narciso

“…Analyses of these concepts is based mainly from the perspective of Islamic liberation theology specifically on the works of Farid Esack, Asghar Ali Engineer, and Fazlur Rahman, whose thoughts on the subject are seen to have more relevance towards development of a contextual Islamic theology of peace and liberation that is reflective of the historical, socio-political, cultural, and economic conditions in Mindanao of Southern Philippines. …”
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Vad är konstant och vad är föränderligt i tredje världens teologi? by Manfred Hofmann

“…In this lecture Hofmann reflects upon his own academic background and development that led him to work with liberation theology and emerging contextual theologies in different parts of this world. …”
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God/dess as the Transcendently Immanent Source of Life: On the Ecofeminist Thea/logy and Spirituality of Rosemary Radford Ruether by Jan Bierhanzl

“…The third part focuses on theological ethics and specifically on the articulation between the ethics of the 'preferential option for the poor', based on liberation theology, and the ethics of ecological sustainability. …”
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Living Witnesses and Moral Agency by Alison Lutz

“…Latin American liberation theology’s “preferential option for the poor” is Farmer’s primary moral lens. …”
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Theology in Latin American Context: A Look at Soteriology by Daniel Orlando Álvarez, Wilmer Estrada-Carrasquillo

“…The essay also considers Liberation Theology as an important theological stream. …”
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‘Gott mit uns’: Reflections on some partisan theologies by Jacobus M. Vorster

“…Four theologies are selected as examples: the Puritan theology in the colonial America of the 17th century, Reformed theology in the Dutch colonisation of the South Africa and the formation of apartheid, the theology in the Reichskirche in Germany in the 20th century and liberation theology in the developing world in the 20th century.…”
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El trabajo del Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones y América Latina by Claudio Jesús Pérez, John W. Murphy

“…For many years this organization has been central in philosophical and theological discussions in Latin America, particularly related to Liberation Theology. In these interviews Richard, who is a key character among this group of writers, clarifies many important ideas related to the role of the Catholic Church in the creation of a more inclusive and human world. …”
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The Second Christ, Saint Francis of Assisi and ecological consciousness by Hendrik Viviers

“…</span><p><strong>Intradisciplinary and/or�interdisciplinary�implications: </strong>Ecological hermeneutics (part of liberation theology or hermeneutics) challenges traditional theologies� often anthropocentric bias in the intra-disciplinary arena. …”
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The riverbank, the seashore and the wilderness: Miriam, liberation and prophetic witness against empire by Allan A. Boesak

“…It is suggested that black liberation theology should adopt this paradigm in its witness of and resistance against oppression.…”
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Enlightening Global Communication: Liberation Philosophy and the Intercultural Stand of the ‘Other' by Binyam Mekonnen

“…In this paper I sketch the main arguments of liberation theology and Enerique Dussel’s liberation philosophy which work for the reconstruction of intersubjective and intercultural communications on the basis of dual redemption in one, which is, emancipation of the ‘Other’ as an initial and the emancipation of humankind as an end.…”
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‘For the tyrant shall be no more’: Reflections on and lessons from ‘The Arab Spring’ in North Africa, the Middle East and the Civil Rights and anti-apartheid struggles by Allan A. Boesak

“…This article probes, from a Black Liberation theology point of view, these events at several levels: (1) what are the connections between the ‘Arab Spring’ and the two other historic movements for social change, the Civil Rights struggle in the United States of America, and the antiapartheid struggle in South Africa; (2) what lessons are to be learnt from these events?…”
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Christianity in Africa: The cost of loyalty to Zionism by Marthie Momberg

“…In contrast to the prevailing perception among Christians in Africa, Zionism cannot be associated with liberation theology. Loyalty to Zionism undermines indigenous spiritual notions, the ideal of an authentic African identity, and Christianity itself. …”
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Theology of the family in the final documents of the General Latin American Episcopal Conferences by Ryszard Hajduk

“…The character of Latin American theology of the family is influenced by the pastoral context and theological trends, born in South and Central America (liberation theology, indigenous theology and theology of the people). …”
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Like Giants Sitting on the Dwarf’s Shoulders: Religious Anarchism and the Making of Modern Zionist Historiography by Yossef Schwartz

“…In various forms, religiosity became the only possible way of radical political thinking, a kind of antinomian liberation theology. In the absence of traditional communal ties of orthodox praxis and systematic theological speculation, these political intellectuals turn to historical discourse as their leading theological super-structure. …”
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Decolonising Islam: Indigenous Peoples, Muslim Communities, and the Canadian Context by Shadaab Rahemtulla

“…The problem of empire has been a key theme in Islamic Liberation Theology (ILT). However insightful, ILT’s engagement with the category of empire has generally presumed a particular colonial configuration in which Muslims are located on the receiving “end” of power, being occupied by an external, non-Muslim force. …”
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Deconstruction and Genealogy of Latin American Good Living (Buen Vivir). The (Triune) Good Living and its Diverse Intellectual Wellsprings by Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara

“…These versions are associated with different intellectual influences, such as sumak kawsay, suma qamaña and allin kawsay; the Andean world view; development with identity; the theory of reciprocity; post-development; liberation theology; dependency theory; the theory of ‘coloniality’; sustainable development; world-system theory; human development; endogenous development; eco-socialism; twenty-first century socialism; social justice; the economics of happiness; eudaemony; the economic theory of relational goods; the social and solidarity economy; intercultural feminism; the feminism of care; eco-feminism; the self-sufficient economy; community economy; barefoot economics and human scale development theory; the Buddhist economy; ‘post-extractivism’; ‘de-growth’; deep ecology and the theory of conviviality.…”
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Han and/as <i>Ressentiment</i>: Lessons from Minjung Theology by Sam Han

“…Following calls in recent critical debates in English-language Korean studies to reevaluate the cultural concept of <i>han</i> (often translated as “resentment”), this article argues for its reconsideration from the vantage point of <i>minjung</i> theology, a theological perspective that emerged in South Korea in the 1970s, which has been dubbed the Korean version of “liberation theology”. Like its Latin American counterpart, <i>minjung</i> theology understood itself in explicitly political terms, seeking to reinvigorate debates around the question of theodicy—the problem of suffering vis-à-vis the existence of a divine being or order. …”
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Embodying a Different Word about Fat: The Need for Critical Feminist Theologies of Fat Liberation by Hannah Bacon

“…Here, I discuss Feminist Participatory Action Research and ethnography as methodologies that might help feminist theologians researching fat to prioritise the overlooked bodies and stories of fat women, and to continue liberation theology’s longstanding commitment to constructing historical projects oriented towards social change. …”
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Avoiding Burnout with Compassionate Accompaniment: A Novel Approach to Training, Selecting, Managing, and Regulating Frontline Workers by Oelberger Carrie

“…This approach aligns with literature from liberation theology, as well as abolitionist organizing, decolonizing approaches, and feminist theory. …”
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Psychosocial Accompaniment by Mary Watkins

“…The idea of “accompaniment” emerged in liberation theology in Latin America, and migrated into liberatory forms of psychology as “psychosocial accompaniment.” …”
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