Books in the Reclaiming Liberation Theology series

A challenging and topical book that argues that the traditional ways of doing theology ('high theology') no longer work and that theology has to take place at the periphery rather than in the social, cultural and political centre. Suitable for undergraduate study.

How does empire mould human subjectivity, for instance, and how does it affect the understanding of humans within the whole of creation? This title analyzes the global empire in its political and economic dimensions, in its symbolic constructions of power, and in its general assumptions often taken for granted.

Black Theology emerged as a response to black consciousness. In South Africa it is a critique of power; in the UK it is a political theology of black culture. The dominant form of Black Theology has been in the USA, originally influenced by Black Power and the critique of white racism. This book offers a critique of Black and Womanist theology.