The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology

The second edition of this Companion brings the story of liberation theology up to date and indicate its continuing importance.

The second edition of this Companion brings the story of liberation theology up to date. Additional essays deal with gender and sexuality and epistemology. Liberation theology is widely believed to have been tied to a particular period of ecumenical and political theology. These essays indicate its continuing importance.Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics and religion but not always adequately understood. The second edition of this Companion brings the story of the movement's continuing importance and impact up to date. Additional essays, which complement those in the original edition, expand upon the issues by dealing with gender and sexuality and the important matter of epistemology. In the light of a more conservative ethos in Roman Catholicism, and in theology generally, liberation theology is often said to have been an intellectual movement tied to a particular period of ecumenical and political theology. These essays indicate its continuing importance in different contexts and enable readers to locate its distinctive intellectual ethos within the evolving contextual and cultural concerns of theology and religious studies. This book will be of interest to students of theology as well as to sociologists, political theorists and historians.