Latino/a Catholic and Black Catholic Self-Disclosure
June 4-7, 2006
La Quinta Inn and Suites Convention Center
San Antonio, TX
Session One: Scriptural Perspectives
Moderator: Francisco Lozada, University of Incarnate Word
Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John’s University
“The Hebrew Bible and (Im)migrants: Reading at the Border”
James Okoye, C.S.Sp., Catholic Theological Union
“Sarah and Hagar: Gen 16 and 21”
Session Two: Perspectives in Theological Anthropology
Moderator: Peter Casarella, Catholic University of America
Orlando Espín, University of San Diego
“Humanitas, Identity, and another Theological Anthropology”
M. Shawn Copeland, Boston College
“On the Body: Another Theological Anthropology”
Session Three: Historical Perspectives
Moderator: Cecilia Moore, University of Dayton
Jorge Aquino, University of San Francisco
“History, Power, Ideology: Three Tropes on the Deconstruction of Race as a Task for Latin@ Religious Reflection”
Sue Houchins, Bates College
"Between Hagiography and Slave Narrative: Chicaba, an African Nun in Eighteenth Century Spain" (Co-authored with Baltasar Fra-Molineros)"
Session Four: Ethical Perspectives
Moderator: Diana Hayes, Georgetown University
Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Drew University
“Justicia-A Reconciliatory Praxis of Care and Tenderness”
Bryan Massingale, Marquette University
“'A Dream Deferred:' A Meditation on African American Understandings and Pursuit of Justice”
Presidential Address: Miguel H. Díaz, College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University
Session Five: Enlace / Synthesis
Moderator: Carmen Nanko-Fernández, Catholic Theological Union
Presenters:
Jacqueline Hidalgo, Claremont Graduate University
Jamie Phelps, Xavier University
