Preface
Kathryn Tanner
Taking the Train: A Theological Journey through Los Angeles County
Sheila Briggs, University of Southern California
A Theologian in the Factory: Toward a Theology of Social Transformation
M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College
Tasting the Bitter with the Sweet: The Spiritual Geography of Newark
Linda A. Mercadante, Methodist School of Theology
Degenerate Utopia in Philadelphia: Toward a Theology of Urban Transcendence
Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary
La Habana: The City That Inhabits Me
Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Drew Theological School
Sheila Briggs is an Associate Professor in the School of Religion
at the University of Southern California. Among her current
interests are slavery in early Christianity and religious and moral
themes in cult television. She is co-editing a forthcoming handbook
on feminists theology from Oxford University Press.
M. Shawn Copeland is professor emerita of systematic theology at
Boston College. She has been president of the Catholic Theological
Society of America. She has taught at Marquette University, Yale
University Divinity School, and the Institute for Black Catholic
Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans.
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz was born and raised in La Habana, Cuba, and
was Professor of Christian Ethics and Theology at Drew University
in Madison, New Jersey, and author of En la Lucha: Elaborating a
Mujerista Theology (revised edition, Fortress Press 2004) and La
Lucha Continues-Mujerista Theology (2004).
Linda Mercadante is B. Robert Straker Professor of Theology at the
Methodist Theological School in Ohio. She holds her doctorate from
Princeton Theological Seminary and is the author of Victims &
Sinners: Spiritual Roots of Addiction and Recovery (1996) and
Gender, Doctrine, and God: The Shakers and Contemporary Theology
(1990).
Mark Lewis Taylor is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Theology and
Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is author of The
Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America (Fortress
Press, 2001) and Remembering Esperanza: A Cultural-Political
Theology for North American Praxis. He is also editor of Paul
Tillich: Theologian of the Boundaries (Fortress Press, 1991) and
co-editor of Reconstructing Christian Theology (Fortress Press,
1994).
Kathryn Tanner is Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic
Theology at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of numerous
books, including Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity; Economy of
Grace; Theories of Culture; and Christianity and the New Spirit of
Capitalism.
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