Centering Hope As a Sustainable Decolonial Practice: Esperanza en Práctica

Yara González-Justiniano

doi:10.5771/9781793650900

Summary

Where is the hope? What does it look like? Is the Christian church providing a hope that materializes in the grounding of people’s thriving? These questions posed the catalysts of this work where the author sets up a journey that parses the definition of hope within Christian theology as an ontological category of the human experience. Through ethnographic research and ecclesial study of diverse congregations in Puerto Rico the work moves from an articulation of context, hope, practice, and future to reveal its aim of liberation through a hope that can be sustainable in time and space. She analyzes the operations of political systems that suppress hope in the island. Weaving the theme of a theology of hope, with the fields of ecclesiology, memory studies, postcolonial and decolonial theory, liberation theology, and the study of social movements she builds a model that puts hope at the center of socio-economic practices and moves toward a recipe for a hope that is sustainable in practice.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-5089-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-5090-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 148
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. List of Figures No access
About Context: “No Hay Mal que Dure Cien Años, Ni Cuerpo que lo Resista.” No access Pages 1 - 20
About Hope: “Al Mal Tiempo, Buena Cara” No access Pages 21 - 42
About Practice: “A Buen Entendedor, Pocas Palabras Bastan” No access Pages 43 - 66
About the Future: “Vivir del Cuento” No access Pages 67 - 92
About Telos: “Más Largo que la Esperanza del Pobre” No access Pages 93 - 108
Notes No access Pages 109 - 134
Bibliography No access Pages 135 - 142
Index No access Pages 143 - 146
About the Author No access Pages 147 - 148