Landscapes of Liberation

Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix to which the Church belonged. Missionary movements to Latin America coincided with visions for a progressive, radically transformative church.

Landscapes of Liberation expands scholarship into liberation theology’s reception in Andean America and critically examines the interplay of the Catholic Church as a global institution with parishes as local actors. Through source material from both sides of the Atlantic, this book charts how a transnational network of pastoral agents and laypeople in Peru’s southern highlands claimed mission and development as intertwined tenets of spiritual and social life throughout three decades of agrarian reform, activism, and social conflict. Ultimately, this book reveals how transformative theories for rural development yield contingent transformations: concrete change, yet contested liberation.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I. MODERNIZING CATHOLICISM (1943-1968)

1 ‘Compulsive Modernization’
2 Mission in Progress
3 Pastors on Pastures

PART II: LIBERATING EVANGELIZATION (1968-1980)

4 Liberation and Revolution
5 Anthropological Concerns
6 Opting for the Peasantry

PART III: MOBILIZING FAITH (1980-1988)

7 A Third Path
8 Land of Communities

Conclusion
Bibliography

Format: Monograph - hardback

Size: 234 × 156 × 17 mm

230 pages

ISBN: 9789462703742

Publication: July 26, 2023

Series: Leuven Studies in Mission and Modernity 2

Languages: English

Stock item number: 155481