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Texts on Liberation Theology
I am not religious but I feel liberation theology could become useful to me (my aunt and her missionary friends). Basically are there any texts/videos/general resources I should read?
Thank you for your time.
"I'm not interested in indulging whims from members of your faction."
Seeing as this is seen as acceptable by an admin, from here on out when I have a disagreement with someone I will be asking them to reference this. If you want an explanation of my views, too bad.
I too have been interested in Liberation Theology, and I've found this site to be a good landing point for one's studies on it: http://liberationtheology.org/articles/
I think that the Catholic Worker website has stuff you may find interesting considering that L.T. is their get down.
Brospierre-Albanian baseball was played with a frozen ball of shit and tree branch
"History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union."
Henry L. Stimson: U.S. Secretary of War
Take the word “fear” and the phrase “for what, it’s not going to change anything” out of your minds and take control of your future.
[I]Juan Jose Fernandez, Asturias
"I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see"
You should also check out friar Herbert McCabe (O.P), he was not a liberation theologican per se, he was too much of an orthodox catholic for that, and a highly respected theologian in the tradition of st. Thomas Aquinas.
However:
Gregarious and with a fondness for drinking, McCabe was known to sing IRA songs at the Greyhound pub in Oxford, and to teach guests at Blackfriars the Italian Communist song Avanti Popolo, with a chorus of "Mussolini e un bastardo!". A friend recalled him proudly offering, in the course of an evening at the Polish Hearth Club in London, to assassinate Pope John Paul II, stating this as the duty of a good Catholic.
I can recommend you all of his work, but in particular "God Matters", a book about all kinds of catholic theological stuff but it also includes chapters on Class Struggle and Hunger Strikes. McCabe argues from a theological standpoint that it's every christian's duty to participate in the class struggle on the side of the proletariat, and that "in the end, the workers will need not only solidarity and class consciousness, but guns as well".
Worth reading up Ernesto Cardenal: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/ernesto-cardenal
Michael Lowy's War of the Gods is pretty good as I remember.
I know it's not exactly liberation theology, but Jesus Radicals has some decent stuff; the sheer number of texts in the Jacques Ellul section, for example, is staggering!
The works of Hamid Dabashi and Ali Shariati are pretty interesting.
Come little children, I'll take thee away, into a land of enchantment, come little children, the times come to play, here in my garden of magic.
"I'm tired of this "isn't humanity neat," bullshit. We're a virus with shoes."-Bill Hicks.
I feel the Bern and I need penicillin
Pope Francis was a supporter of LT back in the day, something he's probably trying to keep a lid on now that he's the big cheese.
I have no real issues with it, but unfortunately I have no texts on it either
A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
by the founder of LT: Gustavo Gutierrez
Go with staple texts on it, and you'll learn quite a bit and be able to dispense advice. I really think we should make a study group on this on revleft, even as an ex-Catholic these texts are very powerful.
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped." MLK
-fka Redbrother
He was? From what I can understand he was pretty accommodating to the military government of Argentina. If he had supported it I think it was only certain aspects and definitely not something he made public, even before he was Pope. There've have been interpretations that he was hostile to LT beyond just working with the Argentine authorities.
If you're interested in the other direction, Alistar Kee has books about Liberation Theology in South America and Black Liberation Theology. I also read and liked James Hal Cone's first book. (liked in the sense that it was cool, motivating, and had some great criticisms of oppressive theology, not liked in the sense that I'm now religious or think any form of theology is a good revolutionary agent)
Several of his associates have said over the years that it wasn't something he spoke on often, but he did support the idea, yes
