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A Campaign Pitch Rekindles the Question: Just What Is Liberation Theology?

But as a category, liberation theology, which often draws heavily on Marxist analysis, is not ethnocentric. It has been taken up by oppressed groups including third world peoples, Latinos, Asians and other American ethnic minorities. Its most famous text, “A Theology of Liberation,” published in 1971 by the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, is associated primarily with Latin American Christianity.

Since his and Dr. Cone’s books, lesbian, gay and other queer theologians have developed a liberation theology of sexuality. Black women propound what they call womanist theology, and Latina women have taken up “mujerista” theology, for the Spanish word for “womanist.”

The founding mother of mujerista theology, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, a Cuban-American who taught at Drew University, died May 13. She is remembered for the radical step of doing theological field work, talking to Latina women for theological insights that scholars might not glean from books. In works like “En La Lucha” (“In the Struggle”), she used interviews with Latina women, and their descriptions of prayer and religious rituals and festivals, to elaborate the Latina relationship to Christianity, and to the Bible.

“Hispanic women’s experience and our struggle for survival, not the Bible, are the source of our theology and the starting point for how we should interpret, appropriate, and use the Bible,” Ms. Isasi-Diaz wrote in “Mujerista Theology,” published in 1996.

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Puerto Rican judge orders journalist to reveal confidential source

By Tania Lara/NR

Journalism in the Americas Blog (May 24, 2012)

 

Journalist organizations condemned a court order that forces a Puerto Rican journalist to reveal the identity of a confidential source, reported the newspaperEl Nuevo Día.

 

Judge Katherine Silvestri, from a court in San Juan, ordered journalist Cándida Cotto to reveal the identity of the confidential source she used when reporting on the 2010 strike in the University of Puerto Rico, according to the weeklyClaridad.

 

The newspaper and the journalist were sued by the former university chancellor and the chancellor’s spouse for defamation and slander and attributing the declarations to an anonymous source, according to the court resolution.

 

The Journalists Association of Puerto Rico considered the court decision “a dangerous precedent against freedom of the press,” and that it could have repercussions in that public figures may intimidate journalists and their potential sources of information, according to an announcement by this organization on Wednesday, May 23.

 

The newspaper Nuevo Día said that in at least one previous case, the court requested the journalist to turn in tape recordings and interviews about a former peasant leader.

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