Ivan Petrella

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Ivan Petrella
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Ivan Petrella
Born (1968-11-08) November 8, 1968 (age 57)
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Ivan Petrella (born November 8, 1969) is an Argentine social theorist and liberation theologian. He is the Secretary of Culture in Argentina's Ministry of Culture and currently teaches at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. [1] He was an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida and co-executive editor of the Reclaiming Liberation Theology book series with SCM Press.

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Education

Ivan Petrella holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Religion and Law from Harvard University's Committee on the Study of Religion in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. [2]

Theological views

As an Argentine liberation theologian that is also agnostic, [3] Petrella's scholarship cuts across religious studies departments and divinity schools, the United States and Latin America, and theology and the social sciences. [4] Historian Mario Aguilar notes that his work represents different things for different people: he may seem to Argentines a theologian, but to Americans, he may be considered a scholar of religion. [5]

Petrella is particularly interested in the intersections between different liberation theologies including black theology, Latin American liberation theology, Womanist theology and Hispanic/Latino(a) theology. He criticises disciplines like economics, political science, and law, which he believes sometimes operate in favour of the wealthy, [6] and that they need a transformation to more closely align with the values of liberation theology. [7]

Public services

He is the Secretary of Culture in Argentina's Ministry of Culture. Previously he was an elected representative in the City of Buenos Aires state legislature. [1]

Selected bibliography

Further reading

References

  1. 1 2 Petrella, Ivan (2017). "Liberation Theology Undercover". Political Theology. 18 (4): 325–339. doi:10.1080/1462317X.2017.1311058. S2CID   148974423.
  2. ↑ "Department of Religious Studies". 2009-04-22. Archived from the original on 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  3. ↑ "Sólo le pido adios". Clarín. April 2, 2006.
  4. ↑ Mario Aguilar, The History and Politics of Latin American Theology, Volume II (London: SCM Press, 2008) p.170. Chapter nine is an overview of Petrella’s work.
  5. ↑ Mario Aguilar, History and Politics of Latin American Theology, Volume II pp.168, 170
  6. ↑ Te Paa, Jenny Plane (2013). "What does Liberation Theology Mean in and for the Twenty-First Century?". In Cooper, Thia (ed.). The Reemergence of Liberation Theologies: Models for the Twenty-First Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 137–149.
  7. ↑ Ivan Petrella, Beyond Liberation Theology: a Polemic (London: SCM Press, 2008) p.150
  8. ↑ Petrella, Ivan (February 16, 2005). Latin American liberation theology: the next generation. Orbis Books. OCLC   56950774.
  9. ↑ Petrella, Ivan (February 16, 2006). The future of liberation theology: an argument and manifesto. SCM Press. OCLC   70909702.
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