Liberating Spiritualities and The Power of Place: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This is an author meets critic session on two new books in Latine/x religion- Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas, by Christopher Tirres and, Touched by this Place: Theology, Community, and the Power of Place, by Benjamin Valentin. Both texts are interdisciplinary, Latine and diasporic in focus, and invoke the rich traditions of pragmatism and liberation theology as methodological sources.  In Liberating Spiritualities, Tirres offers an in-depth exploration of spirituality as a catalyst for social transformation, showcasing the insights of six distinguished twentieth-century liberation thinkers from across the Américas. In Touched by this Place, Valentín centers the reality of place, placed-based thinking, and "home" as sources for Christian theology.