Thy Will Be Done: Brasil’s Holy War

Brasil Wire A fifty year foreign battle to combat Catholic Liberation Theology in Brazil promises rich rewards for the vested interests which initiated it, at great human cost. “Brazil is at the vanguard of the global trend of the Pentecostalization of Christianity,” as well as “the epicenter of world Christianity, with the largest Pentecostal population”…

Black Agenda Book Forum: Shadaab Rahemtulla’s “Qur’an of the Oppressed”

Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor A central aim of liberation theology, in both the Christian and Muslim faiths, is to wrestle theology away from the elites and their privileged pontification. “This is a book about siding with the oppressed and of speaking truth to power.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer…