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After Pestilence
An Interreligious Theology of the Poor
Theology and Praxis
Theology, 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.
Global Religious Response
It 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.
Religion in Socio-Economic Change
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.
Book Content and Focus
This 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.
Call to Action for Churches and Religions
It 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.
