Christianity and Culture in the City : a Postcolonial Approach.

Christianity and Culture in the City : a Postcolonial Approach.

This volume examines how the manifestation and development of diverse expressions of Christianities in the city offer potentialities and innovative models for the liberation struggles and gospel incarnation within various social, historical, economic, cultural/ethnic, sexual, and gender realities. I...

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Main Author: Cruz, Samuel
Other Authors: Savastano, Peter, Rivera, Edgar, Estevez, Nicolas Dumit, Nickens, Michelle L., Sinclair, Charlene, Valentin, Elieser, Traverzo, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2012.
Subjects:
City churches > New York.
City churches > New Jersey.
Christianity and culture > New York.
Christianity and culture > New Jersey.
Postcolonial theology.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Christianity and culture
City churches
Postcolonial theology
New Jersey
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Table of Contents:
  • The Use of Roman Catholic material culture, ritual, and devotional practices in Haitian vodou in the greater Newark, New Jersey, area: the urban context / Peter Savastano
  • Between the runway and the empty tomb : bodily transformations and Christian praxis in New York City's House Ball community / Edgar Rivera Colón
  • Praying aloud, in Spanish, in the South Bronx / Nicolás Dumit Estévez
  • Troubling the waters : intimate violence and the church--breaking the hold of shame and secrecy / Michelle L. Nickens
  • Revelation 12-13: a guerilla reading / Charlene Sinclair
  • The Church, the city, and its mission in the twenty-first century : a view from the margins / Elieser Valentin
  • A Praxis of integral liberation in a (post) colonial world : a critical and compelling conversation / David Traverzo.

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