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A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology: Prophesy Freedom. Four Perspectives – I. What Does Freedom Look Like When the Oppressor Is Within? Engaging Teresa Delgado's A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology: Prophesy Freedom - A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology: Prophesy Freedom. By Teresa Delgado. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xv + 204 pages. $99.00.

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A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology: Prophesy Freedom. By Teresa Delgado. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. xv + 204 pages. $99.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2018

MT Dávila
MT Dávila*
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Merrimack College
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Horizons , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , December 2018 , pp. 412 - 419
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Footnotes

Editor's Note

The editors of Horizons select works for review symposia based on the quality of the book, its contribution to theology, and the importance of the topic for our readers. Some texts provide particularly timely opportunities that cannot be ignored. In light of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria and the death-dealing devastation of the hurricane for the people of Puerto Rico, the editors seized the possibility to train attention on the slow and continuing task of recovery by conducting a symposium on A Puerto Rican Decolonial Theology by Teresa Delgado.

References

1 Joe Coscarelli, “Lin-Manuel Miranda Gathers All-Star Latin Artists for Hurricane Relief,” New York Times, October 6, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/06/arts/music/lin-manuel-miranda-puerto-rico-relief-song.html.

2 Ibid.

3 Julia Belluz, “It's Not Just Puerto Rico: 6 Other Caribbean Island Nations Are in Crisis after the Hurricanes,” Vox, October 3, 2017, https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/26/16367410/hurricane-maria-2017-puerto-rico-caribbean-barbuda-dominica-virgin-islands-cuba-st-martin.

4 Melissa Pagán, “Puerto Rico Forum Reflection #3: Cultivating a Hermeneutics of El Grito in the Eye of the Storm,” Perspectivas 15 (2018): 72, http://perspectivasonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/P-E-R-S-P-E-C-T-I-V-A-S_2018.pdf.

5 Ibid.

6 Dávila, María Teresa, “Catholic Hispanic Theology in the U.S.: Dimensiones de la Opción Preferencial por los Pobres en el Norte,” Proceedings of the Annual Convention (Catholic Theological Society of America) 63 (2008): 43Google Scholar.

7 Jorge Juan Busone Rodríguez V, Jules Martínez, Loida Martell, Melissa Pagán, Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Teresa Delgado (panelists), and MT Dávila (moderator), “Puerto Rico and Maria: Histories and Vulnerabilities in the Eye of the Storm” (panel presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Boston, November 19, 2017). The video of the panel presentation is available on the event's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PRatAARSBL/.

8 Wise, Robert, Lehman, Ernest, Robbins, Jerome, Bernstein, Leonard, Sondheim, Stephen, Wood, Natalie, Beymer, Richard, et al. , West Side Story (Santa Monica, CA: MGM Home Entertainment, 2003)Google Scholar.

9 Delgado is quoting from Mignolo, Walter, The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), 80–81CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

10 See, for example, Delgado's, essay “Prophesy Freedom: Puerto Rican Women's Literature as a Source for Latina Feminist Theology,” in A Reader in Latina Feminist Theology, ed. Aquino, María Pilar, Machado, Daisy, and Rodríguez, Jeannette (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), 23–52Google Scholar.

11 See, for example, Pierson, Ruth Roach and Chaudhuri, Nupur, eds., Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998)Google Scholar; Hunt, Nancy Rose, Liu, Tessie, and Quataert, Jean, eds., Gendered Colonialisms in African History (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1997)Google Scholar; Jaffarey, Nora, ed., Gender, Race, and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas (New York: Routledge, 2016)Google Scholar.

12 Jean-Paul Sartre, introduction to Memmi, Albert, The Colonizer and the Colonized (Boston: Beacon Press, 1965)Google Scholar, xxii, quoted in Delgado, 180.