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1998
Mapas para la Fiesta. Atlanta, GA: AETH (Asociación para la Educación
Teológica Hispana), [3rd revised, enlarged and updated edition in Spanish],
214 p. ISBN 0-9657839-6-0.
1997
Mapas para la Fiesta. Caracas, Venezuela: Guarura Ediciones, 171 pp. ISBN
980-07-3201-7 [2nd republication of ibid. in Spanish].
Otto Maduro e o Feminismo. Um depoimento a Regina Jurkewicz. Sao Paulo (Brazil):
Simpósio Editora, 76p.
Conocimientos en Mosaico: Buscando Nuevas Propuestas para la Educación Popular. Bogotá/Sao Paulo: REDLAC, 61 pp.
1994
Mapas para a Festa. Reflexoes Latino-Americanas sobre a Crise e o Conhecimento.
Petrópolis (Brazil): Editora Vozes Ltda., 196 p.
Módulo La Realidad Social y su Análisis. Bogotá (Colombia): CINEP/Equipo FOSDI, Workbooks 1-4 (25, 38, 47 & 12 pp.) [Republication of ibid. in Spanish].
1993
Mapas para La Fiesta: reflexiones latinoamericanas sobre la crisis y el
conocimiento. Buenos Aires: Centro Nueva Tierra, 148 p. (To be published
in Portuguese in 1994 by Editora Vozes: Petrópolis [Brazil]).
1991
(Editor) Judaism, Christianity and Liberation. Maryknoll (NY): Orbis
Books, 152 p.
1989
(Co-editor with Marc Ellis) Expanding the View. Gustavo Gutiérrez
and the Future of Liberation Theology. Maryknoll (NY): Orbis books, 200
p.
1981
La cuestión religiosa en el Engles premarxista. Caracas (Venezuela):
Monte Avila Editores, 315 p.
1980
Religión y Conflicto Social. Mexico, D.F.: Centro de Estudios
Ecuménicos/Centro de Reflexión Teológica, 219 p. (Venezuelan
edition by Ateneo de Caracas; Brazilian translation by Vozes: Petrópolis,
1981; English by Orbis: Maryknoll, NY, 1932: [all of these out of print];
German by Exodus: Fribourg [Switzerland], 1986; Korean by Korean Theological
Study Institute: Seoul, [Korea], 1988).
1977
Marxismo y Religión. Caracas (Venezuela): Monte Avila Editores,
221 p. (out of print; 2nd edition, 1981).
1970
Revelación y Revolución. Mérida (Venezuela): Universidad
de Los Andes, 135 p. (out of print).
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2002
"On the Theoretical Politics of Defining 'Religion'," Social
Compass (2002) 49.4: 601-605.
2001
"Globalization, Social Policy and Christianity at the Dawn of a New Millennium:
Some Reflections from a Latin American Emigrant Perspective," in Religion
and Social Policy. Paula Nesbitt, ed. New York, NY: AltaMira Press, 2001:
3-14.
"Recruiting Latinas/os for ATS Seminaries," Perspectivas (Princeton, Spring 2002): 47-53.
2000
"Liberation Theology," in Wade Clark Roof (ed.). Encyclopedia
of Contemporary American Religion. New York: Macmillan.
"Base Communities," in Wade Clark Roof (ed.). Encyclopedia
of Contemporary American Religion. New York: Macmillan.
"Social Analysis," in Virginia Fabella, M.M., and R. J. Sugirtharaja
(eds.). Dictionary of Third World Theologies. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books: 185-187.
1999
"Maryknoll," in Robert Wuthnow (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Politics
and Religion. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, Inc.: 501f.
[Guest Co-Editor] Journal of the American Academy of Religion [Special Section of articles on the theme of "Latino Reliion"] (Sept.) 67, 3: 539-636.
1998
"Madeleine Cousineau Adriance. Promised Land: Base Christian Communities
and the Struggle for the Amazon" [review] Journal of Interamerican
Studies & World Affairs (Miami, Winter) 39, 4: 135-138.
[Editor, and Introduction] Cristianismo y Sociedad [Special issue on Feminist Theology from Latin America]) (Quito, Ecuador) XXXVI, 135-136, 150 p.
"Recordando a un amigo capaz de burlarse de lo más sagrado" Revista Venezolana de Filosofía (Caracas, Venezuela: Universidad Simón Bolívar) 36-37: 11-13.
"Globalización y cristianismo de cara al siglo XXI (I y): Un par de desafíos desde la perspectiva de un emigrante latinoamericano" SIC (Caracas, Venezuela: Aug.) LXI, 607: 308-311 (was also in http://www.gumilla.org.ve/archivoSIC/ago98/).
"Globalización y cristianismo de cara al siglo
XXI (y II): Un par de desafíos desde la perspectiva de un emigrante
latinoamericano," SIC (Caracas, Venezuela: Sept.-Oct.) LXI, 608:
379-381 (was also in http://www.gumilla.org.ve/archivoSIC/sep98/).
"Reflexiones sobre el «sincretismo» de los latinos en los
EE.UU.," Emeritense-Historia en la Web: Revista Electrónica
de Historia (July) http://loto.adm.ula.ve/~emeriten/CE_Sincretismo.html
"Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer, Alteridade e vulnerabilidade: Experi?ncia de Deus e pluralismo religioso no moderno em crise. Coleço [sic] Christismo [sic] e Modernidade 6. So [sic] Paulo: Ediç?es [sic] Loyola, 1993, Pp. 103. Paper" [review] Journal of Ecumenical Studies (Winter) 35, 1: 113.
1996
"Notes toward a Sociology of Latina/o Religious Empowerment," in
Ada María Isasi-Díaz and Fernando F. Segovia (eds): Hispanic/Latino
Theology: Challenge and Promise. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers:
151-166.
"Religious Production of Latino Popular Religiosity," PARAL Occasional Paper #7, [NY] Program for the Analysis of Religion Among Latinos, [Oct.] 15 pp.
"Leonardo Boff," in Donald W. Musser & Joseph
L. Price (eds): A New Handbook of Christian Theologians, Nashville:
Abingdon Press, 1996: 74-84.
[Editor, and "Introduction," pp. 459-465] Social Compass
[Special issue on The Emergence of a Feminist Sociology of Religion] (London/CA/New
Delhi, Dec) 43, 4: 457-631.
(with Regina Jurkewicz and Carolina Teles Lemos): As Novas Abelhas: relacoes de g?nero (published VHS tape), Sao Paulo, Brazil: CESEP/Rede Rua, 60 min.
1997
"Theologies and Liberation in Peru: the Role of Ideas in Social Movements.
By Milagros Pe?a" [review] Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
(West Lafayette, IN: March 1997) 36: 130 ff.
"Globalization and Christianity in the 21st Century" Convergence (Barcelone /Fribourg, July) 7: 17-22
"Globalization and Christianity in the 21st Century" [online republication of parts of ibid.] http://www.adelphi.edu/ci/ISSUES/OTTO.HTM
"¿Cuál Violencia?¿Cuál Solución," El Intérprete (UMC Communications, Nashville: TN, July/August) 35, 4: 6-7.
1995
[Guest editor and Presentation] Religioni e Societ? [Special issue:
Americana. Ispanizzazione del cattolicesimo statunitense e altre ricerche
sulle Americhe religiose] (Florence, Italy: January-April) X, 21, 160 pp.
"Directions for a Reassessment of Latina/o Religion," in A. M. Stevens-Arroyo and A. I. Pérez y Mena (eds): Enigmatic Powers: Syncretism with African and Indigenous Peoples' Religions among Latinos. New York: Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies (CUNY): 47-68.
"Frigerio, Alejandro (ed.). Ciencias Sociales y Religión en el Cono Sur" [review] SIC (Caracas, Venezuela: May) LVIII, 574: 191 f.
"Carmona Fernandez, Francisco J.: La Compa?ía de Jesús y el liderazgo católico en la Barcelona de los cuarenta" [review] SIC (Caracas, Venezuela: May) LVIII, 574: 191.
"Alejandro Frigerio (ed.). Ciencias Sociales y Religión en el Cono Sur. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de América Latina S.A., 1993. 151 p." [review] Review of Religious Research (June) 36, 4: 412 f.
"La Compa?ía de Jesús y el Liderazgo Cathólico[sic] en la Barcelona de los Cuarenta, by Francisco J. Carmona Fernández. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1994, 232 pp." [review] Sociology of Religion (Winter) 56, 4: 448 f.
"Visiones estáticas y dinámicas del poder" [republication of part of my book Mapas para la Fiesta], El Vigilante (Mérida, Venezuela: July 23) 5.
1994
[Guest editor and Introduction] Cristianismo y Sociedad [Special issue
on Latina Churches in the U.S.A.] (Guayaquil, Ecuador: January-March) XXXI/4-XXXII/1,
118-119, 94 pp.
Mapas para a festa (published VHS tape), Sao Paulo, Brazil: Rede Rua,
45'.
"The Modern Nightmare: A Latin American Christian Indictment", in Wayne Whitson Floyd, Jr. and Charles Marsh (eds): Theology and the Practice of Responsibility. Essays on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Valley Forge, PA: Trinity Press International: 77-84.
"Narcotráfico: ¿Neoliberalismo real?", SIC (Caracas, Venezuela: March) LVII, 562: 61 ff.
"Con Haití en el Corazón", SIC (Caracas, Venezuela: Sept.-Oct.) LVII, 568: 371 f.
"'Ispanizzazione' delle religioni nordamericane? Anticipazioni su un numero monografico di Religioni e Societ?", Religioni e Societ? (Florence. Italy: January-April), IX, 18: 113-115.
1993
The Modern Nightmare: A Latin American Chritian Indictment, in Union Seminary
Quarterly Review (New York: NY) 46: 77-84.
U.S. Latinos and Religion [interview by James S. Torrens],
in America (New York: NY) 169, 4: 16-19,
`Popular Voices in Latin American Catholicism' by Daniel Levine (review),
in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (Charlottesville, VA)
32 (3): 300.
1992
Liberation Theology, in Donald W. Musser & Joseph L. Price (editors):
A New Handbook of Christian Theology, Nashville (TN): Abingdon Press:
287-293.
(In French): Religion et Développement: a propos des
communications de T.K. Oomen et Olivier Carré, in Social Compass
(Louvain-la-Neuve: Belgium) 39 (1): 77-80.
Néolibéralisme et Théologie latinoaméricaine de
la Libération, in Francois Houtart et al.: Ruptures Sociales et Religion.
L'éthique religieuse des rapports sociaux, Paris/Louvain-la-Neuve:
L'Harmattan/Centre Tricontinental: 121-125.
(In Portuguese): Por uma ética da ternura, [interview] in Lúcia Ribeiro (editor): Entre o Desejo e o Mistério: Novos Caminhos da Sexualidade, Rio de Janeiro: ISER (comunicacoes do ISER 11/42): 46-58.
Um `sim'condicional a democracia: cronica de um golpe anunciado contra o FMI, in Vermelho e Branco (Rio de Janeiro: Brazil) III, 26: 2.
(In Spanish): Sue?o para el futuro: Vida justa para todos in Revista Maryknoll (Maryknoll: NY) 13, 9: 26-28.
De cómo la buena noticia pudo transformarse en mala,
in Pasos (San José: Costa Rica) 2: 14f.
Nuestra variedad etnocultural, in SIC (Caracas: Venezuela) LV, 550:
471 f.
"Algunas implicaciones teóricas de la teología de la liberación en América Latina para la sociología de las religiones" in Carlos Martínez Assad (coord.): Religiosidad y Política en México. México (DF): Universidad Iberoamericana (Cuadernos de Cultura y Religión 2): 35-58.
1990
`Liberation Theology in Tanzania and South Africa: A First World Interpretation'
by Per Frostin (review) in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
(West Lafayette, IN) 29 (3): 406.
"A desmitificaçao do marxismo na Teologia da Libertaçao" Comunicaçoes do ISER (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) 9, 39:55-72.
[Editor] Social Compass [Two special issues on the Sociology of the Papacy] (Louvain: Belgium) XXXVI, 2 & XXXVII, 3.
1991
Some Theoretical Implications of Latin American Liberation Theology for the
Sociology of Religions in David G. Bromley (ed.): Religion and the Social
Order, New Developments in Theory and Research, Greenwich (CT) and London
(GB): JAI Press Inc, Vol I: 165-181 [also in Spanish].
Christian Faith and Socialism: A Latin American Perspective, in Lorine E. Getz and Ruy O. Costa (editors): Struggles for Solidarity: Liberation Theologies in Tension, Minneapolis (MN): Augsburg Fortress Publishers.
Benavides, Gustavo, and M.W. Daly (eds.), `Religion and Political Power'(review) in Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (West Lafayette, IN) 1991, 30 (1): 127.
"América Latina e o Leste Europeu. Reflexoes de um sociólogo" Vermelho e Branco (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: Oct.) II, 21:5-6.
[Several interventions], in Faustino Luiz Couto Teixeira (org.): Teologia da Libertaçao. Novos Desafios. Sao Paulo, Ediçoes Paulinas: 84, 92f., 109 & 134f.
"Propriedade Privada: A Ética é Possível?" Atualidade em Debate (Centro Joao XXIII, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) Cadernos 10/11: 1-43.
1988
A Christian Response to the Poor in World Parish (Maryknoll, NY) 28 (250):
1.
The Desacralization of Marxism within Latin American Liberation Theology, in Social Compass (Louvain) XXXV (2-3): 371-385 [also in Spanish, Portuguese, and Serbo-Croatian].
The dream of a humble pope: Maybe, one day it will be so in World-Paper (boston) X (10): 1 f. [also in Chinese and Spanish].
1988
Church Empowerment, Liberation Theology and the Jewish Experience: A Latin
American Catholic Perspective in Christian Jewish Relations (London)
21 (1): 25-31.
1987
Notes for a South-North Dialogue in Mission from a Latin American Perspective
in Missiology (Scottsdale: PA) XV (2): 61-75 [also in Spanish].
North and Latin American Catholicism: From Oppressive Solitude Toward Liberating Solidarity in Bechtle and Ratschmidt (eds): Mission and Mysticism, Maryknoll (NY): Marknoll School of Theology: 1-11.
Christian Democracy and the Liberating Option for the Oppressed in Latin American Catholicism, in Concilium (Edinburgh) 193: 106-119 [also in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, and Dutch].
1986
`Dieu change en Bretagne. La religion a Limerzel de 1900 a nos jours'par Yves
Lambert (review) in Sociological Analysis (Chicago) 47 (2): 184 f.
1984
Is Religion Revolutionary? In The New England Sociologist (Framingham,
MA) 5 (1): 127-131.
"O Profissional de Classe Média e as Lutas Populares" Cadernos
do CEAS (Salvador, Brasil: May-Jun.) 91:53-61.
"Nota sobre o marxismo da Instruçao Vaticana" Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira (Petrópolis, Brasil) 176:770-773.
"Luta de classes e processos de libertaçao na América Latina", Subsídios para Estudos e Debates em Educaçao Popular (Sao Paulo, Brasil) 1:4-39.
1983
Catholic Church, National Security States, and Popular Movements in Latin
America in International Conference on the Sociology of the Sociology of
Religion: Acts of the 17th Conference: Religion and the Public Domain
(Paris, France): 7-19.
1981
`Karl Marx and Religion in Europe and India' by Trevor Ling (review) in Sociological
Analysis (Chicago) 42 (3): 300-301.
"Des approches marxistes nouvelles de l'autonomie relative de la religion" Liaisons Internationales (Brussels, Belgium) 29:17-24.
1980
Labour and Religion according to Karl Marx in Concilium (Edinburgh-New
York) 131: 12-20 [also in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and
Dutch].
1979
A Socioanalytical Note on Psychopathological Trends Among the Catholic Clergy
in David O. Moberg (ed.): Spiritual Well-Being: Sociological Perspectives,
Washington, DC: University Press of America, 201-203.
1977
Peasant Religious Symbolism: Its Relative Autonomy in International Conference
on the Sociology of Religion: Acts of the 14th Conference: Symbolism
(Lille, France): 349-355.
New Marxist Approaches to the Relative Autonomy of Religion in Sociological Analysis (Chicago) 38 (4): 359-367 [also in Spanish and French].
1975
Marxist Analysis and the Sociology of Religion: An Introduction in Social
Compass (Belgium) XXII (3-4): 401-479 [also in Italian and French].
Marxist Analysis and Sociology of Religions: An Outline of International bibliography up to 1975 in Social Compass (Belgium) XXII (3-4) 401-479.
Marxist Analysis and Sociology of Religion in International Conference on the Sociology of Religion: Acts of the 13th Conference: Religion and Social Change (Lille, France): 395-401.
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Personal interview shortly after the 9/11 tragedy with Francesco Jori, New York correspondent of an Italian newspaper, cited in his article "New York, nella moschea due Islam divisi," Il Gazzettino (Roma, 9/30/01) 5.
Live personal interview for the "World Religions" program at Radio Red (1100 AM) in Mexico City on "The Future of Religions"(8/21/01).
Personal interview on 10/25/01 with Kathleen O'Brien, journalist, cited in her article "Comfort and joy: the first post-Sept.11 Christmas will be more thoughtful, meaningful," The Star-Ledger (Trenton, 11/04/01).
By Javier Casta?o: "La fe nace en cualquier esquina," El Diario (New York, NY, Friday 4/2/99).
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To my knowledge, not less than 50 reviews about my books have been published in periodicals of Australia, Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Holland, India, Italy, the U.S.A. and Venezuela. Most deal with the American translation of my third book, Religion and Social Conflicts. What follows is a listing of reviews that I know of, (in the English language), of several of my books:
Had my book Mapas para la Fiesta reviewed by Gladys Parentelli
in the Venezuelan ecumenical periodical Presencia Ecuménica (Caracas,
Jan.-Mar. 1998): 45
On Judaism, Christianity, and Liberation Theology, in The Bible Today (Collegeville,
MN), 1991; in Christian-Jewish Relations (London) 1991, 24 (2): 109-113, by
Eugene J. Fisher; in The Presbyterian Outlook, 4/13/92, by Lillan McCulloch
Taylor; in Theological Book Review (England) 1992, 4 (2): 26, by Allan r.
Brockway; in Theology digest, Spring 1992; in Missiology, October 1992, XX
(4), by Calvin E. Shenk.
On The Future of Liberation Theology, in Louvain Studies (Leuven) Fall 1991, by Herman-Emiel Mertens; in SIDIC/-Service International de Documentation Judéo-Chrétienne, 1991, XXIV, 1, by Mary Kelly; in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 1991, 20 (1), by Carmel McEnroy; in Horizons, Spring 1991, by Phillip Berryman; in Cross Currents (NY) 1991: 130-134, by Hugh Lacey; in Vidyajyoti Journal of Theological Reflection (India) February 1991, 55 (2): 118s., by George V. Lobo, S.J.; in Calvin Theological Journal (Grand Rapids, MI) April 1991, 26 (1): 283, by John W. Cooper; in the Princeton Seminary Bulletin, XIII (2), by Alan Neely; in Bijdragen, tijdschrift voor filosofie en theologie, 1992, 53 (1), by A.J.M. van der Helm.
On Expanding the View in EPB'S book World/Examiner Bookshop (Bombay), aug. 1991, XVII (8); in Journal of Dharma Oct.-Dec. 1991, XVI (40; and in Pacifica (Australia), 1992, 5: 111-115, by Neil Ormerod.
On Religion and Social Conflicts in The Middle East Journal Winter 1982, in Sociological Analysis 44 (1) 1983, by Madeleine R. Adriance; in Homiletic VII (1) 1983; in Commonweal 2/25/83, one by Marie Augusta Neal and other by John Coleman; in Choice Feb. 1983; in the Catholic New Times 2/19/83, by Douglas Letson; in The Review of Books and Religion Mid-June 1983, by Kyle St. Claire; in Commonweal 8/12/83, by Mary Gerhart; in The New England Sociologist 5 (1) 1984, by Harvey Cox; in Missionalia April 1984, by J.S. Krueger; in the Theology digest Spring 1984; in Mission Focus Sept. 1984, by Calvin Redekop; in Transnational Perspectives 10 (3-4) 1984, by Raymond J. Smyke; in the Reformed Review Spring 1985, by Robert Hoeksema; in the Ecumenist Fall 1986, by Ivan Varga.