Ivone gebara biography of christopher columbus

  • In 1492, Christopher Columbus reported to the king and queen of Spain that his expedition had found a 'new world'.
  • This article will survey the historical process behind, and the main topics of, Christian theology as it developed and appears today in Latin America.
  • Ivone was born in São Paulo and, as a young woman, joined the Augustinian Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady.

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    Teaching theology with a new worldview

    Something happened when Elaine Nogueira-Godsey was 20 that gave her a powerful new perspective on her life in Brazil: She moved to South Africa.

    “Growing up in Brazil, I knew from an early age that I wanted to travel and learn more from other cultures,” she said. “It was not until I moved to Africa that I saw the value of my perspective as a female theologian of mixed race. Working with Angolan and Mozambican refugees in South Africa reinforced my desire to explore this perspective further. It opened my eyes to the injustices that had become normalized in my native habitat, of which religion was inextricably central.”

    As she observed “the centrality of the natural world in our everyday lives,” she developed an abiding interest in the intersection of ecology and issues of racial and gender oppression. “The poor conditions exacerbated by pollution and disregard for the environment disproportionately affected women, the poor and the racially

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    Notes

    Tirres, Christopher D.. "Notes". Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas, New York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2025, pp. 127-156. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531508340-010

    Tirres, C. (2025). Notes. In Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas (pp. 127-156). New York, USA: Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531508340-010

    Tirres, C. 2025. Notes. Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas. New York, USA: Fordham University Press, pp. 127-156. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531508340-010

    Tirres, Christopher D.. "Notes" In Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas, 127-156. New York, USA: Fordham University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531508340-010

    Tirres C. Notes. In: Liberating Spiritualities: Reimagining Faith in the Américas. New York, USA: Fordham University Press; 2025. p.127-156. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531508340-010

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    Theology in Latin America

    Maria Clara Bingemer

    This article will survey the historical process behind, and the main topics of, Christian theology as it developed and appears today in Latin America. It will first make a historical retrieval of how this theology had, for a large time, a European configuration, reinforced by a strong romanization (mostly in the nineteenth century). It will then examine how this theology acquired a new configuration after the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) in the twentieth century. Christian churches trying to implement Vatican II in the continent decided not to reproduce the European model of church and theology, or to produce theological thinking which would depart from the reality and the culture of Latin America. After that, the article will reflect on the ascension of liberation theology, the most important theological school in the continent, and subsequently on its crisis and the ruptures it produced. Finally, the article will describe