Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
5-2021
Publisher
Lexington Books
Abstract
This chapter is divided into four sections. In the first section, I examine some of the challenges that contextual theologies presently face in connecting their contextualist focus with liberationist aims. In the second section, I look specifically at the ways in which some prominent U.S. Latino/a theologians have broached popular ritual as an embodied and enculturated site of liberation. A pressing question has been: In what ways is Latino/a popular ritual liberating? The third section then considers how a pedagogical approach to popular ritual helps us better answer this question. I argue that a renewed focus on pedagogy underscores a pivotal insight that is often lost when interpreting popular ritual: like all integral and authentic forms of liberation, popular ritual is a process that grows over time through continued cultivation and engagement. In the final section, I consider some implications that a pedagogical approach to popular ritual has for constructive theology and biblical criticism alike.
Chapter of
Latino/a Theology and the Bible: Ethnic-Racial Reflections on Interpretation
Editor
Fernando Segovia
Francisco Lozada
Recommended Citation
Tirres, C. D. (2021). Popular Ritual as Liberating Pedagogy. In F. Segovia & F. Lozada (Eds.), Latino/a Theology and the Bible: Ethnic-Racial Reflections on Interpretation (pp. 189-206). Lexington Books.
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