First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction--David Batstone, Eduardo Mendieta, Lois Ann Lorentzen, Dwight N. Hopkins; Part One:DANGEROUS HOPE & LIBERATING MONEY: 1. Liberation Theology in the Economic and Social Context of Latin America: Economy and Theology, or the Irrationality of the Rationalized -- Franz J. Hinkelammert 2. When the Horizons Close upon Themselves: A Reflection on the Utopian Reason of ohlet --Elsa Tamez 3.Renewing the Option for the Poor --Gustavo Gutirrez 4.A Post-Christian and Postmodern Christianism --Marña Clara Bingemer 5. Black Masks on White Faces: Liberation Theology and the Quest for Syncretism in the Brazilian Context--Josu A. Sathler and Años Nascimento Part Two: CROSSING BORDERS: REMAPPING THE SACRED/SECULAR: Section Introduction 6. Dancing with Chaos: Reflections on Power, Contingency, and Social Change--Sharon D. Welch; 7. Writing for Liberation: Prison Testimonials from El Salvador--Lois Ann Lorentzen; 8. Charting (dis)Courses of Liberation -- David Batstone 9. Vodou Resistance/Vodou Hope: Forging a Postmodernism That Liberates--Mark McClain Taylor 10. William Apess: A Pequot and a Methodist Under the Sign of Modernity--Robert Allen Warrior Part Three: POSTMODERN PRAXES AND LIBERATION THEORIES: 11. Postmodernity, Black Theology of Liberation and the U.S.A.: Michel Foucault and James H. Cone--Dwight N. Hopkins; 12. Interruptions: Critical Theory and Political Theology Between Modernity and Postmodernity--Edmund Arens 13.Israel and Athens, or to Whom Does Anamnestic Reason Belong: On Unity in Multicultural Diversity -- Jürgen Habermas 14.From Christendom to Polycentric Oikonum Modernity, Postmodernity, and Liberation Theology --Eduardo Mendieta 15.The Architectonic of the Ethics of Liberation: On Material Ethics and Formal Moralities--Enrique Dussel.