Books in the Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology series

A profoundly interdisciplinary approach to comparative scholarship, Ecologies of Participation: IAgents, Shamans, Mystics, and Diviners argues for a radical neostructuralist stance. Developing recent theories and methods in religious studies, Cabot argues for a participatory approach to comparative studies.

This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling upon voices from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

This volume addresses the problematic relationship between colonialism and the Bible. It does so from the perspective of the Global South, calling upon voices from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Feminist Praxis against U.S. Militarism provides critical feminist and womanist analyses of U.S. militarism that challenge the ongoing U.S. neoliberal military-industrial complex and its multivalent violence that destroys people's lives, especially women and other vulnerable populations.

In Postcolonial Preaching, HyeRan Kim-Cragg calls for a postcolonial approach to preaching that takes identity, liturgy, migration and practice seriously. To address our current context, she proposes six concepts as essential elements of postcolonial homiletics: Rehearsal, Imagination, Place, Pattern, Language, Exegesis.

In theological education, we do the work of deconstructing and reconstructing teaching and learning for the sake of our collective decolonial futures. Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education invites teachers to imagine what that future might hold and how it might take shape.

Where is the hope? What does it look like? Is the Christian church providing a hope that materializes in the grounding of people's thriving? These questions posed the catalysts of this work where the author sets up a journey that parses the definition of hope within Christian theology as an ontological category of the human experience. Through ethnographic research and ecclesial study of diverse congregations in Puerto Rico the work moves from an articulation of context, hope, practice, and future to reveal its aim of liberation through a hope that can be sustainable in time and space. She analyzes the operations of political systems that suppress hope in the island. Weaving the theme of a theology of hope, with the fields of ecclesiology, memory studies, postcolonial and decolonial theory, liberation theology, and the study of social movements she builds a model that puts hope at the center of socio-economic practices and moves toward a recipe for a hope that is sustainable in practice.