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• Winner of Named a 'Best Black History Book' by Black Perspectives.
• Winner of Named a 'Best Black History Book' by ^IBlack Perspectives^R.

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Lillian Calles Barger's The World Come of Age is a masterful exploration of the causes, course, and consequences of liberation theology in the twentieth century. Through extensive research across two continents, Barger skillfully weaves together the stories of thinkers and activists from varied backgrounds throughout Latin America and the United States. This book should be required reading for scholars of American and Latin American religious, cultural, and intellectual history. * Christopher Cameron, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte * The intellectual history of liberation theology is an obvious and yet tellingly neglected subject. Lilian Calles Barger has filled a large gap with a perceptive, comprehensive, and gracious book radiating her broad learning and her deep personal engagement with the subject. * Gary Dorrien, author of The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel * This remarkable history should be read by anyone who thinks they understand the relationship between religion and politics. Barger convincingly demonstrates that liberationists participated in the forging of a secular age in which religious claims are a familiar feature of the public sphere. Lucidly written and theoretically nimble, this book will inspire a new generation of activists to think about how their moral calls to reform might change the world. * Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, and History, Yale University * This is a landmark work, whose depth and profundity may keep it off people's beach reading list, but give it a long shelf life in intellectual discussions. * Paul Harvey, University of Colorado *

Lillian Calles Barger's The World Come of Age is a masterful exploration of the causes, course, and consequences of liberation theology in the twentieth century. Through extensive research across two continents, Barger skillfully weaves together the stories of thinkers and activists from varied backgrounds throughout Latin America and the United States. This book should be required reading for scholars of American and Latin American religious, cultural, and intellectual history. * Christopher Cameron, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte * The intellectual history of liberation theology is an obvious and yet tellingly neglected subject. Lilian Calles Barger has filled a large gap with a perceptive, comprehensive, and gracious book radiating her broad learning and her deep personal engagement with the subject. * Gary Dorrien, author of The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel * This remarkable history should be read by anyone who thinks they understand the relationship between religion and politics. Barger convincingly demonstrates that liberationists participated in the forging of a secular age in which religious claims are a familiar feature of the public sphere. Lucidly written and theoretically nimble, this book will inspire a new generation of activists to think about how their moral calls to reform might change the world. * Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, and History, Yale University *

As a timely, ambitious, and rigorous intellectual history of liberation theology, The World Come of Age will be of interest to broad academic audiences, especially intellectual and religious historians, as well as scholars and students of liberation theology, political theology, and religious ethics. ... Barger's book displays the vitality of early liberation theology and the ongoing importance of efforts to recover its unappreciated resources for freedom dreams in the present. -- Lilian Calles Barger, Reading Religion What a delight it has been to turn off social media and dive into this deeply reflective, thoughtful work of intellectual history. The book is not what I was expecting, and that is a good thing, because it is better--richer, more layered and complex, and intellectually challenging--than I expected, or even might have hoped for.... This is a landmark work. --Journal of Church and State This remarkable history should be read by anyone who thinks they understand the relationship between religion and politics. Barger convincingly demonstrates that liberationists participated in the forging of a secular age in which religious claims are a familiar feature of the public sphere. Lucidly written and theoretically nimble, this book will inspire a new generation of activists to think about how their moral calls to reform might change the world. --Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, and History, Yale University The intellectual history of liberation theology is an obvious and yet tellingly neglected subject. Lilian Calles Barger has filled a large gap with a perceptive, comprehensive, and gracious book radiating her broad learning and her deep personal engagement with the subject. --Gary Dorrien, author of The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel Lillian Calles Barger's The World Come of Age is a masterful exploration of the causes, course, and consequences of liberation theology in the twentieth century. Through extensive research across two continents, Barger skillfully weaves together the stories of thinkers and activists from varied backgrounds throughout Latin America and the United States. This book should be required reading for scholars of American and Latin American religious, cultural, and intellectual history. --Christopher Cameron, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

A sweeping transnational intellectual history that runs from the sixteenth-century revolutionary theology of Thomas Munster to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion This is an important, comprehensive treatment of the social, political, and theological forces that contributed to the emergence of liberation theologies in the Americas in the 1960s and 1970s... The book is very well researched; the footnotes alone are a valuable resource... Summing Up: Highly Recommended. -- CHOICE As a timely, ambitious, and rigorous intellectual history of liberation theology, The World Come of Age will be of interest to broad academic audiences, especially intellectual and religious historians, as well as scholars and students of liberation theology, political theology, and religious ethics. ... Barger's book displays the vitality of early liberation theology and the ongoing importance of efforts to recover its unappreciated resources for freedom dreams in the present. -- Tyler Davis, Reading Religion What a delight it has been to turn off social media and dive into this deeply reflective, thoughtful work of intellectual history. The book is not what I was expecting, and that is a good thing, because it is better--richer, more layered and complex, and intellectually challenging--than I expected, or even might have hoped for.... This is a landmark work. -- Paul Harvey, Journal of Church and State This remarkable history should be read by anyone who thinks they understand the relationship between religion and politics. Barger convincingly demonstrates that liberationists participated in the forging of a secular age in which religious claims are a familiar feature of the public sphere. Lucidly written and theoretically nimble, this book will inspire a new generation of activists to think about how their moral calls to reform might change the world. --Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, and History, Yale University The intellectual history of liberation theology is an obvious and yet tellingly neglected subject. Lilian Calles Barger has filled a large gap with a perceptive, comprehensive, and gracious book radiating her broad learning and her deep personal engagement with the subject. --Gary Dorrien, author of The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel Lillian Calles Barger's The World Come of Age is a masterful exploration of the causes, course, and consequences of liberation theology in the twentieth century. Through extensive research across two continents, Barger skillfully weaves together the stories of thinkers and activists from varied backgrounds throughout Latin America and the United States. This book should be required reading for scholars of American and Latin American religious, cultural, and intellectual history. --Christopher Cameron, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

As a timely, ambitious, and rigorous intellectual history of liberation theology, The World Come of Age will be of interest to broad academic audiences, especially intellectual and religious historians, as well as scholars and students of liberation theology, political theology, and religious ethics. ... Barger's book displays the vitality of early liberation theology and the ongoing importance of efforts to recover its unappreciated resources for freedom dreams in the present. -- Tyler Davis, Reading Religion What a delight it has been to turn off social media and dive into this deeply reflective, thoughtful work of intellectual history. The book is not what I was expecting, and that is a good thing, because it is better--richer, more layered and complex, and intellectually challenging--than I expected, or even might have hoped for.... This is a landmark work. -- Paul Harvey, Journal of Church and State This remarkable history should be read by anyone who thinks they understand the relationship between religion and politics. Barger convincingly demonstrates that liberationists participated in the forging of a secular age in which religious claims are a familiar feature of the public sphere. Lucidly written and theoretically nimble, this book will inspire a new generation of activists to think about how their moral calls to reform might change the world. --Kathryn Lofton, Professor of Religious Studies, American Studies, and History, Yale University The intellectual history of liberation theology is an obvious and yet tellingly neglected subject. Lilian Calles Barger has filled a large gap with a perceptive, comprehensive, and gracious book radiating her broad learning and her deep personal engagement with the subject. --Gary Dorrien, author of The New Abolition: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel Lillian Calles Barger's The World Come of Age is a masterful exploration of the causes, course, and consequences of liberation theology in the twentieth century. Through extensive research across two continents, Barger skillfully weaves together the stories of thinkers and activists from varied backgrounds throughout Latin America and the United States. This book should be required reading for scholars of American and Latin American religious, cultural, and intellectual history. --Christopher Cameron, Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

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Lilian Calles Barger was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and immigrated to the United States as a child. She received her PhD from The University of Texas at Dallas and is the author of Eve's Revenge: Women and a Spirituality of the Body and Chasing Sophia: Reclaiming the Lost Wisdom of Jesus.

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