Raúl E Zegarra
Biographic Data
| ID | 1538404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raúl E Zegarra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raúl E |
| FAMILY NAME | Zegarra |
| SIGNATURE | ZEGARRA R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9884-8488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Vote of Faith
Capitalist Humanitarianism
Landscapes of Liberation
Context-Attentive Theology
This article argues that theology (systematic or otherwise) is ultimately grounded in (religious) experience. To that end, I methodologically demonstrate that theological inquiry cannot coherently be pursued without attention to people’s experience of the divine/sacred. Thus, this article stands as a methodological development and defense of a family of theological viewpoints that I call context-attentive theologies. In order to do so, I examine …
People Get Ready
A Revolutionary Faith
Religious commitments can be a powerful engine for progressive social change, and in this new book, Raúl E. Zegarra examines the process of articulation of religious beliefs and political concerns that takes place in religious organizing and activism. Focusing on the example of Latin American liberation theology and the work of Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, Zegarra shows how liberation theology advocates have been able to produce a new b…
The Preferential Option of the Poor
This paper argues that the alleged demise of liberation theology is the product of an oversimplification of the movement's development,-one that depends on a church-focused understanding of the process of secularization. Yet, a different interpretation of this process may allow us to see secularization as a process capable of eliciting new forms of sacralization. My contention is that liberation theology has remained active in civil society, espe…
The Preferential Option of the Poor
This paper argues that the alleged demise of liberation theology is the product of an oversimplification of the movement's development,-one that depends on a church-focused understanding of the process of secularization. Yet, a different interpretation of this process may allow us to see secularization as a process capable of eliciting new forms of sacralization. My contention is that liberation theology has remained active in civil society, espe…
A Revolutionary Faith
Religious commitments can be a powerful engine for progressive social change, and in this new book, Raúl E. Zegarra examines the process of articulation of religious beliefs and political concerns that takes place in religious organizing and activism. Focusing on the example of Latin American liberation theology and the work of Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, Zegarra shows how liberation theology advocates have been able to produce a new b…
The Preferential Option of the Poor
This paper argues that the alleged demise of liberation theology is the product of an oversimplification of the movement's development,-one that depends on a church-focused understanding of the process of secularization. Yet, a different interpretation of this process may allow us to see secularization as a process capable of eliciting new forms of sacralization. My contention is that liberation theology has remained active in civil society, espe…
Context-Attentive Theology
This article argues that theology (systematic or otherwise) is ultimately grounded in (religious) experience. To that end, I methodologically demonstrate that theological inquiry cannot coherently be pursued without attention to people’s experience of the divine/sacred. Thus, this article stands as a methodological development and defense of a family of theological viewpoints that I call context-attentive theologies. In order to do so, I examine …
People Get Ready
Capitalist Humanitarianism
Landscapes of Liberation
Vote of Faith
Philosophy (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Faith (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theological Perspectives and Practices (2 works)