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Quetzalcoatl Challenges The Christian Bible, Elsa Tamez
Quetzalcoatl Challenges The Christian Bible, Elsa Tamez
Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology
The author traces four different attitudes toward the Bible that have developed in the more than five hundred years since the encounter of 1492. She challenges readers to rethink both their biblical interpretation and the Christian practice that draws upon that interpretation by becoming attentive to indigenous voices and traditions. If the present moment can be recognized as a kairos — a privileged time of decision, judgment, and grace — Tamez argues that “the historical challenge comes at this moment,” some five hundred years later, “from the indigenous and African-American peoples who, together with women, are rising up as newly …
Amos 5:21-24: Religion, Politics, And The Latino Experience, C. Gilbero Romero
Amos 5:21-24: Religion, Politics, And The Latino Experience, C. Gilbero Romero
Journal of Hispanic / Latino Theology
Pursuing insights from his book Hispanic Devotional Piety: Tracing the Biblical Roots, (1991), the author offers insights into ways in which connections between religion and politics, between acts of worship and deeds of justice, set forth in the book of the eighth-century B.C.E. prophet Amos, might nourish an understanding of the links between religion and politics in the contemporary experience of Latina/os. He stresses the positive function of Latino popular religion as a resource for self- determination and empowerment in the face of the oppression and marginalization that are the daily experience of so many Latinas and Latinos.