Decolonizing Latin American Theological Education

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Stephen DiTrolio Coakley talks to Dr. Nicolás Panotto about his forthcoming book on ‘religion, education, and theology with a postcolonial accent’

 

In this episode of OP Talks, Stephen DiTrolio Coakley talks to theologian and professor Dr. Nicolás Panotto about his forthcoming book Decolonizing Theological Knowledge in Latin America: Religion, Education and Theology with a Postcolonial Accent (Editorial JuanUno1, 2021). Dr. Panotto serves as director of Otros Cruces, an organization dedicated to inspiring dialogue, democracy and human rights through knowledge exchanges between faith and reality, religious communities and civil-society organizations, and between spiritual paths and political actors.

 
 

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Panotto, Nicolás. “De-colonizing theological education: towards an ecology of theological knowledges in Latin America.” Presentated at the Reformation-Education-Transformation Twin International Consultation, Halle, Germany, 13 May 2016.

 
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Stephen DiTrolio Coakley

Stephen R. Di Trolio Coakley is a PhD student at Princeton Theological Seminary in the Department of History and Ecumenics (World Christianity and History of Religions). He worked and taught in Buenos Aires, Argentina before moving to Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests include Pentecostalism, Latin American history, political theology, and decolonial theory.

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Nicolás Panotto

Dr. Nicolás Panotto graduated from the Superior Evangelical Institute of Theological Studies [Instituto Superior Evangélico de Estudios Teológicos (ISEDET), Argentina]; he holds a Masters in Social and Political Anthropology and a PhD in Social Sciences, both from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences [Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Argentina]. Dr. Panotto is an associate researcher of the Institute of International Studies (INTE) at Arturo Prat University in Chile and a professor at Comunidad Teológica de Chile. His research interests include contemporary theologies, faith and ideology, comparative religions, and systematic Theology. He also serves as director of Otros Cruces, an organization dedicated to inspiring dialogue, democracy and human rights through knowledge exchanges between faith and reality, religious communities and civil-society organizations, and between spiritual paths and political actors. In addition to Decolonizing Theological Knowledge in Latin America: Religion, Education and Theology with a Postcolonial Accent (Editorial JuanUno1, 2021), Dr. Panotto has authored several books and research articles in the field of religion and politics, public theology, and postcolonial theory/theology.

 
 
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