Across Borders: Latin Perspectives in the Americas Reshaping Religion, Theology, and Life - Tapa blanda

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Joerg Rieger is distinguished professor of theology and holds the Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair in Wesleyan Studies in the Divinity School and the Graduate Program of Religion at Vanderbilt University. He is also the founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt. He is the author of Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity (2022). Terra Schwerin Rowe is associate professor in the philosophy and religion department at the University of North Texas. She is co-director of the AAR seminar, Energy, Extraction, and Religion, on the steering committee of the academy's Religion and Ecology unit, and a member of the Petrocultures Research Group. She is author of Toward a Better Worldliness: Economy, Ecology, and the Protestant Tradition (2017) and Of Modern Extraction: Experiments in Critical Petro-theology (2023).

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).

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).

Miguel A. De La Torre is professor of social ethics and Latino/a Studies at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.

Nancy Elizabeth Bedford is a native of Argentina and is the Georgia Harkness Professor of Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary (Evanston). Among her books are Nuestra Fe (with Guillermo Hansen; Buenos Aires: ISEDET, 2008) and La porfía de la resurrección. Ensayos desde el feminismo teológico latinoamericano (Buenos Aires: Kairós, 2009). Her current book project is a theological commentary on Galatians for the Belief series with Westminster John Knox Press. Her research interests focus on global feminist theories and theologies, theologies in migration and intercultural theologies, liberating readings of Scripture, and the rearticulation of classical doctrinal loci from the perspective of critical and poetic reason.