{"product_id":"after-pestilence","title":"After Pestilence","description":"\u003cp\u003eTheology, according to liberation theologians is only a second step. The first is praxis. A liberating praxis puts the poor and the marginalised at the centre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is found in the collective response of global religious communities responding to crises - and a global pandemic offers an important case in point, reminding religions of our shared humanity, and the need for interreligious cooperation and understanding to effect a positive response. In the context of seismic socio-economic and political change, religion provides a communal response for feeding the poor, fighting for their rights, and challenging the post-colonial financial model that is now beginning to lose its ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book blends an examination of emerging research on the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in marginalised communities, with the author's own research on social and poverty isolation in India, and his own experience as told in diaries written whilst in lockdown in a poor district of Santiago, Chile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt challenges majority world churches and religions in a post-pandemic world to learn from each other and from Jesus' own identification with the outcast, and urges them to take on a way of life and prophetic learning from the world of the poor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mario Aguilar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42081656242388,"sku":"9780334060352","price":21.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9351\/9316\/files\/9780334060352.jpg?v=1776134879","url":"https:\/\/etcevents.co.uk\/products\/after-pestilence","provider":"ETCEvents","version":"1.0","type":"link"}