By Alma Rosa Alvarez
Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature appears on the ways that Chicana/o authors who've skilled cultural disconnection or marginalization due to their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation try to forge a connection again to Chicana/o tradition via their use of liberation theology.
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This call attempted to directly establish Catholics’ relationships to their world. In addition, through political participation, Catholics were given entrance into potential subjectivity as they could vote for policies and government officials who would affirm Christian values. S. Catholic bishops’ 2003 statement, Faithful Citizenship: A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility. This document suggests that the following outline of Catholic social teaching issues be used as a voting guide: • Life and Dignity of the Human Person • Call to Family, Community, and Participation • Right and Responsibilities • Option for the Poor and Vulnerable • Solidarity • Caring for God’s Creation (Faithful Citizenship) In addition, Latin American liberation theology’s privileging of experience is also echoed in this statement: Our community also brings to public life broad experience in serving those in need.
The citizens of the country are not yet a people” (127). S. values such as the work ethic, individualism, and salvation into absolutes (126). The conversion of values into absolutes breaks down any possibility for communal and national identity and is directly responsible for uncontrolled capitalism and consumption. In The Condition of Postmodernity, David Harvey also alludes to a crisis of identity in the United States. For Harvey, this crisis, which he terms as time-space compression, also originates with modes of consumption and production.
In a country as deeply divided as Mexico, as segregated socially and splintered regionally and ethnically, one of the few unifying themes is precisely a shared history, even if an official version of it has to be invented in order for it to be common to all. (43) This shared history, complete with a point of origin, gives the Mexican a firm sense of nationalist identity. It is precisely this identity, conflated with socio-economic factors, which make time seem flat or static: nothing changes over time.