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ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999335522553311..iinndddd vvii 1122//44//22001133 1111::0088::3388 PPMM The Aesthetics and Ethics of Faith ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999335522553311..iinndddd ii 1122//44//22001133 1111::0088::3377 PPMM REFLECTION AND THEORY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION Series Editor Theodore M. Vial, Jr., Iliff School of Theology A Publication Series of The American Academy of Religion and Oxford University Press HEALING DECONSTRUCTION THE METAPHYSICS OF DANTE’S C OMEDY Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity Christian Moevs Edited by David Loy PILGRIMAGE OF LOVE ROOTS OF RELATIONAL ETHICS Moltmann on the Trinity and Christian Life Responsibility in Origin and Maturity in H. Richard Joy Ann McDougall Niebuhr R. Melvin Keiser MORAL CREATIVITY Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility HEGEL’S SPECULATIVE GOOD FRIDAY John Wall The Death of God in Philosophical Perspective Deland S. Anderson MELANCHOLIC FREEDOM Agency and the Spirit of Politics NEWMAN AND GADAMER David Kyuman Kim Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Knowledge Thomas K. Carr FEMINIST THEOLOGY AND THE CHALLENGE OF DIFFERENCE GOD, PHILOSOPHY AND ACADEMIC Margaret D. Kamitsuka CULTURE A Discussion between Scholars in the AAR and APA PLATO’S GHOST Edited by William J. Wainwright Spiritualism in the American Renaissance Cathy Gutierrez LIVING WORDS Studies in Dialogues about Religion TOWARD A GENEROUS ORTHODOXY Terence J. Martin Prospects for Hans Frei’s Postliberal Theology Jason A. Springs LIKE AND UNLIKE GOD Religious Imaginations in Modern and Contemporary CAVELL, COMPANIONSHIP, AND CHRISTIAN Fiction THEOLOGY John Neary Peter Dula COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY AND THE BEYOND THE NECESSARY GOD PROBLEM OF RELIGIOUS RIVALRY Trinitarian Faith and Philosophy in the Thought of Hugh Nicholson Eberhard J ü ngel Paul DeHart SECULARISM AND RELIGION-MAKING Markus Dressler and Arvind-Pal S. Mandair CONVERGING ON CULTURE Theologians in Dialogue with Cultural Analysis and FORTUNATE FALLIBILITY Criticism Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin Edited by Delwin Brown, Sheila Greeve Davaney, Jason A. Mahn and Kathryn Tanner METHOD AND METAPHYSICS IN LESSING’S PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND MAIMONIDES’ GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED THE GERMAN ENLIGHTENMENT Daniel Davies Toshimasa Yasukata THE LANGUAGE OF DISENCHANTMENT AMERICAN PRAGMATISM Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in A Religious Genealogy British India M. Gail Hamner Robert A. Yelle OPTING FOR THE MARGINS WRITING RELIGION Postmodernity and Liberation in Christian Theology The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam Edited by Joerg Rieger Markus Dressler MAKING MAGIC THE AESTHETICS AND ETHICS OF FAITH Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World A Dialogue between Liberationist and Pragmatic Thought Randall Styers Christopher D. Tirres ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999335522553311..iinndddd iiii 1122//44//22001133 1111::0088::3388 PPMM THE AESTHETICS AND ETHICS OF FAITH A Dialogue between Liberationist and Pragmatic Thought z CHRISTOPHER D.   TIRRES 1 ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999335522553311..iinndddd iiiiii 1122//44//22001133 1111::0088::3388 PPMM 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Parts of Chapters 3–5 were printed previously in New Horizons in Hispanic/ Latino(a) Theology , edited by Benjamin Valentín, 128–62. Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2003; Decolonizing Epistemologies: Latina/o Theology and Philosophy, edited by Ada María Isasi-Díaz and Eduardo Mendieta, 226–46, 303–7. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012; and J ournal of Hispanic Theology (2010). http://www.latinotheology.org/2010/Integrating+Experience+and+Epistemology. All have been reproduced with permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tirres, Christopher D. The aesthetics and ethics of faith : a dialogue between liberationist and pragmatic thought / Christopher D. Tirres. pages cm—Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–935253–1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Liberation theology. 2. Pragmatism. I. Title. BT83.57.T525 2014 230’.0464—dc22 2013030334 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999335522553311..iinndddd iivv 1122//44//22001133 1111::0088::3388 PPMM To Allison, con todo mi cariño ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999335522553311..iinndddd vv 1122//44//22001133 1111::0088::3388 PPMM ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999335522553311..iinndddd vvii 1122//44//22001133 1111::0088::3388 PPMM Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: American Faith in a New Key 1 2. Viernes Santo: Where the Shock of the Immediate Meets New Life 14 3. Liberation in the Latino/a Americas: Retrospect and Prospect 42 4. Pragmatism and Latino/a Religious Experience 83 5. Integrating Experience and Epistemology: Ivone Gebara’s Pragmatic Ecofeminism 106 6. The Social Dimensions of Faith: Expanding John Dewey’s Sense of Community and Custom 129 7. Embodied Faith-in-Action: Religious Ritual as Reconstructive Education 156 8. Conclusion: Transforming Faith 195 Bibliography 201 Index 213 ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999335522553311..iinndddd vviiii 1122//44//22001133 1111::0088::3388 PPMM ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999335522553311..iinndddd vviiiiii 1122//44//22001133 1111::0088::3399 PPMM

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What is the future of liberation thought in the Americas? In this groundbreaking work, Christopher D. Tirres takes up this question by looking at the methodological connections between two quintessentially American traditions: liberation theology and pragmatism. He explains how pragmatism lends phil
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