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Michelle A. Gonzalez (Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado) is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. She received her Ph.D. in Systematic and Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California in 2001. Her research and teaching interests include Latino/a, Latin American, and Feminist Theologies, as well as inter-disciplinary work in Afro-Caribbean Studies. She is the author of Sor Juana: Beauty and Justice in the Americas (Orbis Books, 2003), Afro-Cuban Theology: Religion, Race, Culture and Identity (University Press of Florida, 2006), Created in God's Image: An Introduction to Feminist Theological Anthropology (Orbis Books, 2007), Embracing Latina Spirituality: A Woman's Perspective (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2009), Caribbean Religious History (co-authored with Ennis Edmonds, NYU Press, 2010) and Shopping: Christian Explorations of Daily Living (Fortress Press, 2010). She is currently working on a monograph exploring liberation theologies in light of the study of lived religion in the Americas (forthcoming from NYU Press, 2013).
Néstor O. Míguez, doctor in Theology (New Testament) and postgraduate studies in Social and Political Anthropology, is Professor at the Instituto Universitario ISEDET in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the areas of New Testament and Systematic Theology. He has taught and lectured internationally at many universities, associations, and theological schools. He is the former President of the Forum for Ecumenical Theological Education of Latin America and the Caribbean and the President of the Argentinian Federation of Evangelical Churches. Among his recent books are The Practice of Hope (Fortress Press, 2012), Jesús del Pueblo (Buenos Aires, Kairós/Red del Camino, 2011), and Beyond the Spirit of the Empire, co-authored with Joerg Rieger y Jung Mo Sung, (SCM Press, London, 2009).
Jung Mo Sung is Professor in the Graduate Program in Religious Studies and Dean of the School of Humanities and the Law School at the Universidade Metodista of São Paulo, Brazil. He is author of seventeen books, among them, Desire, Market and Religion, Reclaiming Liberation Theology (SCM Press, 2007); Subject, Capitalism and Religion: Horizons of Power in Complex Societies, New Approaches to Religion and Power (Palgrave Macmillan 2011); and Beyond the Spirit of the Empire: Theology and Politics in a New Key, Reclaiming Liberation Theology, co-authored with Joerg Rieger and Néstor Míguez (SCM Press, London, 2009).
Joerg Rieger is Wendland-Cook Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology, SMU. His work seeks to bring together theology and the struggles for justice and liberation that mark our age. He is the author of numerous books, among them Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude, co-authored with Kwok Pui-lan, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2012), Traveling (Fortress, 2011), Globalization and Theology (Abingdon, 2010), No Rising Tide: Theology, Economics, and the Future (2009), Beyond the Spirit of Empire: Theology and Politics in a New Key, Reclaiming Liberation Theology, co-authored with Jung Mo Sung and Néstor Míguez (SCM Press, 2009), and Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times (2007). Rieger lectures nationally and internationally. He is on the steering committee of Jobs with Justice in North Texas and is co-founder of the Workers' Rights Board in the Dallas area.
Miguel A. De La Torre is Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies at Iliff School of Theology. He has published over twenty-five books, five of which have won national book awards. An expert on immigration, and a constant participant in the work of No More Deaths and BorderLinks, he has authored Trails of Hope and Terror: Testimonies on Immigration (Orbis Books, 2009), and is currently producing a documentary on the current immigration crises. He also edited the two-volume encyclopedia Hispanic American Religious Cultures (ABC-CLIO, 2009).
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Joerg Rieger
Part I.
Chapter 1: The Nomadismo of the Popular and the Religious
Nestor O. Miguez
Chapter 2: Lydia Cabrera: Translator of the Afro-Cuban World
Michelle A. Gonzalez
Part II.
Chapter 3: "You Have to Keep Fighting Because God is with You"
Jung Mo Sung
Chapter 4: On Becoming a Hispanic in the U.S. Borderlands
Miguel A. De La Torre
Conclusion: Afterthoughts: Walking Together in Hope
Nancy Elizabeth Bedford
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