Form F: Dissertation Proposal

Requirements: complete 12 courses, all language requirements meet, successful PhD qualifying exam

Name: Jhon Freddy Correa ID:56563 Date: July 1st, 2020

Dissertation Information

Proposed Topic: De-colonization and Pluriversals: Colombians in the U.S.

Proposed Schedule for Research and Writing: August 2019-May 2020
Proposed Public Presentation of Dissertation
Date Time: _?????____ Location: __???_________________
Peer Respondent(s): __________________________________________
*Please schedule in collaboration with program coordinator

Proposed Committee Members

One LSTC faculty member in addition to advisor is required. Students are encouraged to have 1 non-
LSTC committee member.

Name: Dr. Mark Swanson School: LSTC Email: mswanson@lstc.edu

Name: Dr. Rosanna Swanson
Name: Dr. Jose David Rodriguez
Name: Dr. Claudio Carvalhaes
ccarvalhaes@uts.columbia.edu
Instructions
School: LSTC Email: rswanson@lstc.edu
School: LSTC Email: jrodrigu@lstc.edu
School: Union Theological seminary in New York City Email:

Attach a statement of approximately 25 pages in length (the Dissertation Proposal) clearly indicating
the following:

a) The thesis you wish to establish or the hypothesis you wish to investigate, i.e., the "main
point" of your study and that which will constitute its contribution to knowledge.
b) The method you propose to employ.
c) The bibliographical resources to be employed.
d) The probable course of the argument.
*These items will be the subject of careful scrutiny in the oral section of the Field Examination.

Checklist

X☐Dissertation Proposal X☐Submitted by ASO Deadline

X☐ Advisor's Approval Dr. Jose David Rodriguez Copy of email approval required for electronic
approval (see email).
 Form G: PhD Field Exam

Requirements: complete 12 courses, all language requirements meet, successful PhD qualifying exam,
Dissertation proposal submitted

Name: Jhon Freddy Correa ID:56563 Date: February 9, 2021.

Field: World Christianity and Mission Advisor: Dr. Jose David Rodriguez

Scheduling Information
Requested Dates: May 4 & 5th Oral: May 11th Alternative Dates: April 27 & 28th Oral: May 5th.
Has your advisor and all examiners been consulted on the requested date? ☐Yes ☐X No

Examiners
One LSTC faculty member in addition to advisor is required. Students are encouraged to have 1
non-LSTC committee member.

Name: Mark Swanson School: LSTC Email: mswanson@lstc.edu
Name: Dr. Rosanna Swanson School: LSTC Email: rswanson@lstc.edu
Name: Dr. Jose David Rodriguez School: LSTC Email: jrodrigu@lstc.edu
Name: Dr. Claudio Carvalhaes School: Union Theological seminary in New York City
Email: ccarvalhaes@uts.columbia.edu

Exam Information
Submit a complete bibliography and exam proposal

Areas of Interest

1. Interdisciplinary Method:
Areas of research continually emerge, fuse, and transform. What is considered interdisciplinary today
might be considered disciplinary tomorrow. Interdisciplinary method is a dynamic force that focuses
on particular problems or questions that are too complex to be answered satisfactorily by one
discipline. In this interdisciplinary research I aim to integrate historical information, data, concepts,
perspectives, techniques, tools, and the history of decolonization theories developed by Walter
Mignolo in order to understand the religious, social and educational colonization process of
Colombians in the U.S.

From a historical perspective, Peter Burke argues that in the last generation the historians’ universe has
been expanding at a dizzying rate. Therefore, there is the need to create bridges within the expanding
and fragmented universe, between the universal and local histories not to condense them into one but
to be in dialogue with one another. According to Burke the goal is to acknowledge the concern of the
history of virtually every human activity, which has been considered peripheral histories by “real”
historians and traditional paradigms.

Hence, decolonization occurs in acknowledging the sources and geo-political locations of knowledge
while at the same time affirming those modes and practices of knowledge that have been denied by the
dominance of particular forms. In sum, I would use decoloniality to endorse the creation of bridges, an
interdisciplinary process, which is conceptualized by many in communities promoting transnational
identities.
Bibliography:

Alves, Rubem. “From Liberation Theologian to Poet: A Plea that The Church Move From Ethics to
Aesthetics, from Doing to Beauty,” in Church and State 83, (1993): 20-21.

Aquino, María Pilar. Machado, Daisy L. Rodríguez Snippet, Jeanette. A Reader in Latina Feminist
Theology: Religion and Justice. University of Texas Press, 2002.

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Making Face, Making Soul: Haciendo Caras : Creative and Critical Perspectives
By Feminists of Color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation Books, 1990.

Arbuckle, Gerald A. Culture, Inculturation, and Theologians: A Postmodern Critique. Collegeville,

Minn: Liturgical Press, 2010.

Arroyo Stevens and Cadena Gilbert R. Old Masks, New Faces: Religion and Latino Identities. PARAL
Studies Series 2. New York: Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies, 1995.

Auerbach, Carl F., and Silverstein, Louise B. Qualitative data: an introduction to coding and analysis.
New York: New York University Press. 2003.

Barreto, Raimundo. “Rubem Alves and the Kaki Tree: the Trajectory of an Exile
Thinker.” Perspectivas, (2016): 47-64.

Bevans, Stephen B. Models of Contextual Theology. Faith and Culture Series. Maryknoll: Orbis,
2002.

Bonino, Miguez Jose. Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation. Philadelphia:

Fortress Press, 1975.

Boys, Mary C. “The Promise and Perils of Inter-Religious Education.” Toronto Journal of Theology
26, no. 1 (2010): 21–32.

Burke, Peter. New Perspectives on Historical Writing. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001.
_______. Formas de Hacer Historia. Alianza Universidad, 1993.

Campbell-Reed, Eileen R, and Christian Batalden Scharen. “Ethnography on Holy Ground: How
Qualitative Interviewing Is Practical Theological Work.” International Journal of Practical
Theology 17, no. 2 (2013): 232–59.

Díaz, Garzón, Rocío, Karim del and Hernández Jaramillo Janeth. “La Colombia imaginada, trazos de
paz: la literatura infantil como experiencia pedagógica en educación superior.” Innovación
Educativa 18, no. 78 (Septiembre-Diciembre 2018): 13-32.

Elizondo, Virgilio. “A Bicultural Cultural Approach to Religious Education.”

Religious Education 76, no. 3 (1981): 258–70.

Espín, Orlando O. “Migrations and Unexpected Interreligious Dialogue.” Journal of Hispanic / Latino
Theology 12, no.1 (2007): 4-17.

Falco, Evaristo. Voces de Protesta en America Latina. Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago, 2000.

Fontana, Josep. La Historia de los Hombres: Siglo XXI. Barcelona, Editorial Critica S.L.,
 2002.

Galeano, Eduardo. Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina. México D.F: Siglo XXI, 2004.

Gutiérrez, Gustavo. A Theology of Liberation. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2000.

Hulsether, Lucia. “The Grammar of Racism: Religious Pluralism and the Birth of the
Interdisciplines.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 86, no. 1 (2018): 1–41.

Iggers, Georg G. La Historiografia del Siglo XX: Desde la Objetividad Cientifica al

desafio postmorderno. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2012.

Thistlethwaite, Susan B. And Potter Engel Mary. Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies
from the Underside. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990.

Maduro, Otto. Religion and Social Conflicts. Orbis Bks, 1982.

Martínez-Vázquez, Hjamil A.. “The Postcolonizing Project: Constructing a Decolonial Imaginary from
the Borderlands.” Journal of World Christianity 2, no. 1 (2009): 1-28.

Mignolo, Walter D. “Re:Emerging, Decentring, and Delinking: Shifting the

Geographies of Sensing, Believing and Knowing.” https://www.ibraaz.org/essays/59/
_______. “The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference. South Atlantic Quarterly 101,
no. 1 (January 200): 57–96.

Mignolo, Walter, and Catherine E. Walsh. On decoloniality: concepts, analytics, praxis. Durham:
Duke University Press, 2018.

Mignolo, Walter, and Pablo, Pedro Esteticas y Opcion Decoloniales. UD editorial, 2012.

Murchison, Julian M. Ethnography essentials: Designing, conducting, and presenting your research.
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010.

Murchison, Julian M, and Coats, Curtis. “Ethnography of Religious Instants: Multi-Sited Ethnography
and the Idea of ‘Third Spaces.’” Religions 6, no. 3 (September 2015): 988–1005.

Noam Chomsky. El gobierno en el futuro. Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama S.A., 2005.

Noll, Mark A. “Scientific History in America: A Centennial Observation from a Christian Point of
View.” Fides et Historia 14, no. 1. 1981.

O’gorman, Edmundo. La invención de América. Temixco, 1976.

Riessman, Catherine Kohler. Narrative Analysis. Newbury Park, Calif: Sage, 2002.

Robertson, Venetia Laura Delano. “Navigating Other-Than-Human Identities with Online

Ethnography.” Fieldwork in Religion 12, no. 1 (2017): 103–26.

Spliesgart Klaus Koschorke Roland, Ludwig Frieder, Delgado Mariano. A History of Christianity in
Asia, Africa, and Latin America, 1450-1990: A Documentary Sourcebook. Grand Rapids:
William B. Eerdmans, 2007.

Tlostanova, Madina V., and Walter D. Mignolo, “On Pluritopic Hermeneutics, Trans-modern
 Thinking, and Decolonial Philosophy.” Encounters 1, no. 1 (2009): 11-27.

Santiago-Vendrell, Angel. “Popular Religion as a Unifying Factor in the Latino/a Religious

Community. A Pentecostal Proposal in U.S Latino/a Ecumenical Theology.” Journal of
Pentecostal Theology (2003): 129-141.

_______. “Walking in the Spirit: An Invitation to Formulate a Latino(a) Theology of

Religious Pluralism.” Apuntes 30, no. 4 (Wint 2010): 124–47. https://search-ebscohost-
com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org.

Schreiter, Robert J. Constructing Local Theologies. Orbis Bks, 1985.

Tamez, Elsa. Interview with Alves in Against Machismo. Oak Park, IL: Meyers Stone Press, 1987. 68-
76.

Ulrike, R. M. Guthrie, et. al., eds. “A Theology of Human Joy: The Liberating-Poetic-
Ludic Theology of Rubem Alves.” Perspectivas Hispanic Theological Initiative 13 (Spring
2016).

Westhelle, Vítor. “Margins Exposed: Representation, Hybridity and Transfiguration.” In Still at the
Margins: Biblical Scholarship Fifteen Years after the Voices from the Margin. London: T&T
Clark (2008): 69-87. https://search-ebscohost-com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org

_______. “Scientific Sight and Embodied Knowledges: Social Circumstances in Science and
Theology.” Modern Theology 11, no. 3 (July 1995): 341-361. https://search-ebscohost-
com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org.

Wheeler, Kayla Renée. “The Ethics of Conducting Virtual Ethnography on Visual

Platforms.” Fieldwork in Religion 12, no. 2 (2017): 163–78. doi:10.1558/firn.35666.
2. Colombian immigration history to U.S.

One of the fundamental rights of human beings is to have the ability to move into or among different

contexts. Therefore, migration dynamics need to be studied closely as they relate to the specific current

situation of each country. The study of Colombian’s migration dynamics to the US is highly complex

for two reasons: first, to understand it fully requires input from various fields of knowledge and areas;

second, it significantly impacts both the country of origin and the country of destination. I will study a

group of Colombians who have migrated to the US because they represent one of the largest group of

immigrants from South America in the United States. Much of the research available is based on

groups with ethnic labels such as “Hispanics,” “Latinos/as,” and lately LatinX. Historically, since

1970, Colombians in the US have constituted the leading immigrant group from South America.

Although, their presence can be traced back to the early 20th century, the rapid growth in the number

of Colombian immigrants in the past two decades has made them more visible, argues Luis Eduardo

Guarnizo. Colombians are an intriguing group to study, as their socioeconomic profile has consistently

been closer to that of mainstream US society than to that of the Latino population in general (with the

exception of Cubans). Historically, established professionals arrived before 1970, those from more

diverse and lower-class backgrounds came in the 1980s, and, most recently, post-1990 migrants from

middle- and upper-class backgrounds are fleeing political and economic turmoil. Yet, in the US public

and official imaginations, Colombians are mostly associated with international commerce in illicit

drugs and the unremitting violence affecting their homeland. U.S. media coverage and official attitudes

have only helped cement this impression. What most of the public does not know is that Colombians,

and people in general, leave their country of origin for numerous reasons such as political refuge,

economic advancement, religion, adventure, educational opportunities, or just to take an extended

vacation. I hope that by studying the last two waves of Colombian immigration, I will be able to show

that Colombian immigration to the U.S. has created a new social framework of multiethnic and

multiracial diversity, which has reconfigured American’s landscape and national identity.

Bibliography:
Anon. “A Billion in Military Aid Ignores Reality of Colombia.” National Catholic
Reporter 35 (October 1, 1999): 28. https://search-ebscohost-com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org.

Aysa-Lastra, Maria. “Diaspora Philanthropy: The Colombia Experience.” Florida International

University, (May 2007): 1-19.

Cabrera-Cabrera Leidy Johana. “On Narratives and Memory: A Reflection on the

Colombian Armed Conflict from Military History.” Revista Científica General
José María Córdova 16, no. 24 (October-December 2018): 177-201.
http://dx.doi.org/10.21830/19006586.363.

Cepeda, Maria Elena. Musíc ImagiNation: U.S.-Colombian Identity and the Latin Music
Boom. New York: New York University Press, 2010.

Collier, Michael W. "Colombian Migration to South Florida: A Most Unwelcome

Reception." LACC Working Paper Series (2004). https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/laccwps/2.

Collier, Michael W. and Eduardo A. Gamarra. “The Colombian Diaspora in South

Florida: A Report of the Colombian Studies Institute’ s Colombian Diaspora
Project.” Florida International University Latin American and Caribbean Center, 2003.
http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/Lasa2003/CollierMichael.pdf.

De Loera-Brust, Antonio. “Bolivar’s Broken Dreams.” America Magazine, 220, no. 5 (2009): 19-26.

Dix, Robert H. The Politics of Colombia. Politics in Latin America: A Hoover Institution Series. New
York: Praeger, 1987.

Duque-Páramo, Maria Claudia. “Colombian Immigrant Children in the United States: Representations
of Food and the Process of Creolization.” PhD diss., University of South Florida, 2004.
https://digital.lib.usf.edu/SFS0025197/00001.

Duran Garcia, David Alfonso., Parra, Juliana Ines., Bohorquez Aldana Viviana., Centeno
Soto, Alba Rocio. “Desplazamiento Forzado en Colombia Derechos, acceso a la justicia y
reparaciones.” Ed. Javier Aguirre Roman. Futura Impresores, 2007.
https://www.acnur.org/fileadmin/Documentos/Publicaciones/2009/6922.pdf?file=fileadmin/Do
cumentos/Publicaciones/2009/6922

Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo, and Luz Marina Davis. “Transnational Migration: A View from Colombia.”
Ethnic and Racial Studies 22, no. 2 (1999): 397-421.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228428191.

Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo, and Marilyn, Espitia. "Colombia." In The New Americans: A Guide to
Immigration since 1965, edited by Mary C. Waters and Reed Ueda, by Helen B. Marrow, 371-
85. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2007.
http://ezproxy.fgcu.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/hupnewam/c
olombia/0?institutionId=4789.

Guarnizo, Luis Eduardo, Ignacio Arturo Sanchez, and Elizabeth M. Roach, “Mistrust, Fragmented
Solidarity, and Transnational Migration: Colombians in New York City and Los Angeles.”
Ethnic and Racial Studies 22, no. 2 (1999): 367-396.

Hamblin, David W. “Dissertation on: A Social History of Protestantism in Colombia: 1930-2000.”

 PhD diss., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003.

Madrigal, Cándida. “Colombians in the United States: A Study of Their Well-Being.” Advances in
Social Work 14 no. 1 (Spring 2013): 26-48.

Mantilla Ruiz, Luis Carlos. “Entre el Avance y la Insatisfacción: los Ultimos 50 Años de Historia de la
Iglesia en Colombia (1965-2015)” Anuario de Historia de la Iglesia 25 (2016): 59-89.
doi:10.15581/007.25.59-89. https://web-b-ebscohost-com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org/.

Mejía-Escalante, M. “La vivienda digna y la vivienda adecuada. Estado del debate.” Cuadernos de
Vivienda y Urbanismo, 9 no. 18 (2016): 292-307.
http://dx.doi.org/10.11144/Javeriana.cvu9-18.vdva.

Miller, David. “Risking Life for Peace,” Christianity Today 45, no. 11 (September, 3, 2001): 74-77.

Obregon, Liliana, and Maria Stavropoulou. “The Forsaken People: Case studies of the Internally
Displaced: Chapter 10: In Search of Hope: The Plight of Displaced Colombians,” edited by
Frances M. Deng, and Cohen Roberta, 399-454. Washington D.C: The Brooking Institution
Press, 1998.

Olano Garcia, Hernan Alejandro. “The Right to Adequate Housing.” Dikaion 20, no.15 (2006): 105-
112. https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=72001509.

Osterling, Jorge Pablo. Democracy in Colombia: Clientelist Politics and Guerrilla Warfare. New
Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1989.

Ospina, William. De la Habana a la Paz. Prh Grupo Editorial, 2016.

Pellitero, Ramiro. “Los "Hispanics" o "Latinos" de los Estados Unidos.” Scripta Theologicarevista de
la Facultad de Teología de la Universidad de Navarra 34, 1 (2002): 329-372.

Ramírez, Clemencia., Zuluaga, Marcela., and Perilla Clara. “Perfil Migratorio de Colombia, OIM,
Organización Internacional para las Migraciones,” Organización Internacional para las
Migraciones. Bogotá, Junio de 2010.
https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/sites/default/files/planeacion_estrategica/Transparencia/estudio
_oim_con_el_apoyo_de_colombia_nos_une_y_otras_entidades.pdf

Ruiz-Machado, Ricardo. “Human Rights as Regards Forced Displacement by the Social-Political

Conflict in Colombia.” AGO USB Medellin-Colombia 10, no.1 (2010): 183-196.

Sanchez, A. I. Colombian immigration to Queens, New York: The transnational re-imagining of urban
political space. New York, NY: Columbia University, 2003.

Shifter, Michael. “Colombia on the Brink: There Goes the Neighborhood.” Foreign Affairs 78, no. 4
(1999): 14-20. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/colombia/1999-07-01/colombia-brink-
there-goes-neighborhood.

Vázquez Piñeros, María del Rosario. “La Iglesia y La Violencia Bipartidista En Colombia (1946-
1953): Análisis Historiográfico.” Anuario de Historia de La Iglesia 16 (2007): 309–34.
https://search-ebscohost-com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org.

Westmeier, Karl Wilhelm. “The Enthusiastic Protestants of Bogotá, Colombia: Reflections on the
 Growth of a Movement.” International Review of Mission 75, no. 297 (January 1986): 13–24.
https://search-ebscohost-com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org.

Arjona, Ana., Arteaga, Julian., Cardenas, Juan Camili., Ibanez, Ana Maria., Justino Patricia. “The
Legacies of War: How Does Conflict Shape Migration Responses to Negative Weather
Shocks?”. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK. (2018): 1-50.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/lacc/publications/PDFs/Ibanez-Legacies-conflict-migration.pdf.

Tienda, Marta, and Faith Mitchell. Hispanics and the Future of America, National Research Council
(US) Panel on Hispanics in the United States. Washington (DC): National Academic Press
(US), 2006.

Wesselink, Kelly. “Can You Keep Silent? Presbyterians Accompany Threatened Colombians.” Church
& Society 96, no. 2 (November 2005): 100–102. https://search-ebscohost-
com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org.
3. Anibal Quijano, Walter Mignolo and Nuevos Disenos

Walter Mignolo claims in the book The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference the idea

“there can be no others” has been maintained. Then, it is our task to move to the borders to create a

different imaginario. He utters that certainly there is a wealth of knowledge that has been

subalternized by modernity/coloniality, but knowledge is not necessarily in the minds or the interests

of the people, whose interests, in turn, may not coincide with those of the social scientist.

Hermeneutics of decolonization promoted by Mignolo promueven the re-creation of the being

(religious, social, economics identities) that were either denied or acknowledged first, but in the end

were silenced by the discourse of modernity, postmodernity and now altermodernity. This research

will invite us to dwell in the borders, to be together in and beyond the borders. Therefore, the goal of

this de-colonial research is to continue re-inscribing, embodying and dignifying those ways of living,

thinking and sensing that were violently devalued or demonized by colonial, imperial and

interventionist agendas as well as by postmodern and altermodern internal critiques. A different world

is possible when we think of a world beyond European and North Atlantic epistemology.

Bibliography

Dussel, Enrique. “Debate on the Geoculture of the World-System.”

https://enriquedussel.com/txt/Textos_Articulos/338.2003_ingl.pdf.

_______. Desintegración de la cristiandad colonial y liberación: perspectiva latinoamericana.

Salamanca: Ediciones Sigueme, 1978.

_______. “Globalization, Organization and the Ethics of Liberation.” SAGE 13, no. 4 (2006): 489–
508. https://journals-sagepub-com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org/doi/pdf/1

_______. Historia de la Iglesia en América Latina: Medio Milenio de Coloniaje y Liberación (1492-
1992). Madrid: Mundo Negro-Esquila Misional, 1992.
http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/clacso/otros/20120215100901/iglesia.pdf.

_______. The Invention of the Americas: Eclipse of “the Other” and the Myth of Modernity.
Translated by Michael D. Barber. New York: Continuum, 1995.

_______. “Transmodernity and Intercultulturality: An Interpretation from the Perspective of

Philosophy of Liberation.” Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic
World 1, no. 3 (2012): 1-26. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6591j76r.
Dussel, Enrrique D. and Alessandro, Fornazzari. “World-System and “Trans”-Modernity.” Nepantla:
Views from South 3, No. 2, Duke University Press, (2002): 221-244.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/23955.

Dussel, Enrrique, and Ibarra-Colado, Eduardo. “Globalization, Organization and the Ethics of
Liberation,” SAGE 13, no. 4 (2006): 489-505.

Gaztambide-Fernandez, Rubén. “Decolonial Options and Artistic/AestheSic Entanglements: An

interview with Walter Mignolo.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3, no. 1
(2014): 196-212. https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/21310/17389

MacKensfe Shepherd, Loraine. “From Colonization to Right Relations: The Evolution of United
Church of Canada Missions within Aboriginal Communities.” International Review of Mission
103, no. 1 (2014): 153-171.

Martínez-Vázquez, Hjamil A. “Conversion and the Re-Construction of Identity: The Case of US

Latina/o Muslims.” Apuntes 29, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 84–102. https://search-ebscohost-
com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org/.

Memmi, Albert. The Colonizer and the Colonized. Translated by Howard Greenfeld. London:
Earthscan Publications Ltd, 2003.

Míguez Bonino, José. Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation. Fortress, 1974.

Cervantes-Ortiz, Leopoldo. “A Theology of Human Joy: The Liberating-Poetic-

Ludic Theology of Rubem Alves.” Perspectivas: Hispanic Theological Initiative. 13 (Spring
2016): 6-27.

Quijano, Aníbal. “Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America.” International

Sociology 15, no. 2 (June 2000): 215–32.

Pérez, Eliseo. Abya Yala; discursos desde la América des-norteada. México: Publicaciones
El Faro, 2010.
4. Colombians’ contribution to the World Christianity and Mission in the U.S.

Although Colombians live in the richest country in Latin American and are a fusion not only of

various races, but also of complex models of civilizations that were formed by colonial culture.

“La lengua” (the language) that arrived in 1492 was not made to name a pluriversals. It did not have

room to name our realities; therefore it cannot name our diverse current realities. Therefore, finding a

way forward is important because the traditional way of accounting for how human language is able to

speak of the divine has been called into question. One can no longer assume that our language properly

describes God, or our multifaceted humanity. It is true that the only way to change the future is to

change the present, the only way to change the present will be by profoundly modifying the mental

order in which we are inscribed and the language through which we relate to each other. In lo

cotidiano, social change requires individual change which constitute the common fabric. My hope is to

offer another window for us to explore the “g-local,” which would create spaces in U.S. to re-learn

new ways to learn, to listen, to experience God through Colombians' eyes.

Bibliography:

Altmann, Walter. Luther and Liberation: A Latin American Perspective. Minneapolis: Augsburg
Fortress, 2016.

Alves, Rubem. “A festa de Babette,” www.releituras.com/rubemalves_babette.asp.

_______. A Theology of Human Hope. St. Meinrad, Indiana: Abbey Press, 1969.

_______. “Jugar Seriamente Todo El Tiempo: La Teología Transgresora y Lúdica de Rubem

Alves.” Estudos de Religião 31, no. 2 (2017): 159–80. https://search-ebscohost-
com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org.

_______. I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body. Eugene: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1986.

_______. “Theopoetics: Longing and Liberation.” In Struggles for Solidarity: Liberation Theologies in
Tension, edited by Lorine Getz and Roy Costa, 159-171 Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press,
1992.

_______. Tomorrow’s Child: Imagination, Creativity and the Rebirth of Culture. New York:
Harper and Row Publishers, 1972.

Brueggemann, Walter. Hopeful Imagination: Prophetic Voices in Exile. London: SCM Pr,
1992.
_______. The Prophetic Imagination. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001.

Cassese, Giacomo. “Hispanos Bajo La Sombra de la Leyenda Negra: Historia de Una Controversia
Religiosa.” Apuntes 18, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 14-27. https://search-ebscohost-
com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org.

Carvalhaes, Claudio, and Paulo Augusto S. Nogueira. “About an A-Mazing Rubem

Alves: In The Poetics of Religion in Rubem Alves.” Estudos de Religião, Brasil 32, no. 2
(Summer 2017): 301-316.

Cochrane, James R. Circles of Dignity: Community Wisdom and Theological Reflection. Minneapolis:
Fortress Pr, 1999.

De la Torre, Miguel A. Embracing Hopelessness. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2017.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 2010.

_______. El Grito Manso. México: Siglo XXI, 2010.

Mallky, Wiñay. Samay pisccok pponccopi muschcoypa: yanakuna mitmak = Espíritu de

pájaro en pozos del ensueño. Poeta wuchua. Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura. 2010.

Nanco-Fernandez, Carmen. “Held Hostage by Method? Interrupting Pedagogical

Assumptions-Latinamente.” Theological Education 48, no. 1 (2013): 35-45.

Padilla, Elaine. “Embodied Love: Explorations on the imago Dei in the Caribbean Latina Theology of
Ada María Isasi-Díaz,” Perspectivas. Spring 2016. 65-81.

Puelo, Mev. “Rubem Alves.” The Struggle is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 1987.

Rodriguez, Jose D. Justicia en nombre de Dios: Confesando la fe desde una perspectiva

Hispana. A collection of Bible studies, sermons and lectures dealing with the confessing
witness of faith from a Hispanic Perspective. Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago, Hispanic Latino Ministry Program, 2002.

Rodriguez, Jose D. La Iglesia, signo y primicia del Reino: Reflexiones Pastorales desde el Caribe
y America Latina. Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Hispanic Latino Ministry
Program, 2003.

Rodriguez, José D. and Kirst, Nelson. Relectura de la teologia de Lutero desde el contexto del tercer
mundo. 1995. México, D.F.: El Faro.

Rodriguez, Jose D. and Martell-Otero, Loida I. Teología En Conjunto: A Collaborative

Hispanic Protestant Theology. Louisville, Ky: Westminster/John Knox Pr. 1997.

Sánchez, Leopoldo A. “What Does Japan Have to Do with Either Latin American or U.S. Hispanics?:
Reading Kazoh Kitamori’s ‘Theology of the Pain of God’ from a Latino Perspective.” Missio
Apostolica 12, no. 1 (May 2004): 36–47. https://search-ebscohost-
com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org/.

Schreiter, Robert J. Constructing Local Theologies. Orbis Bks, 1985.

Sobrino, Jon. No Salvation Outside the Poor: Prophetic-Utopian Essays. Maryknoll:
Orbis Books, 2008.

Sobrino, Jon, and Juan Hernández Pico. Theology of Christian Solidarity. Orbis Books, 1985.

Torres, Valerie. “Familia as Locus Theologicus and Religious Education In Lo Cotidiano [Daily
Life].” Religious education 105, no. 4 (2010): 444-461. doi:10.1080/00344087.2010.493413.

Vivas, Miguel Rocha. Mingas De La Palabra: Textualidades Oralitegráficas Y Visiones De Cabeza

En Las Oralituras Y Literaturas Indígenas Contemporáneas. Bogotá, D. C., Colombia:
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, (2018).

Westhelle, Vítor. After Heresy: Colonial Practices and Post-Colonial Theologies.

Eugene, Ore: Cascade, 2010.

Westhelle, Vítor. “Liberation Theology: A Latitudinal Perspective.” In the Oxford Handbook on

Eschatology, edited by Jerry Walls, 311-327. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Westhelle, Vítor. “The Poet, the Practitioner, and the Beholder: Remarks on Philip Hefner’s Created
Co-Creator.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 39, no.4 (2004): 747-754. https://search-
ebscohost-com.jkmlibrary.idm.oclc.org

Westhelle, Vítor. The Scandalous God: The Use and Abuse of the Cross. Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 2007.

Oral will deal with questions arising from the written examinations and dissertation proposal

Checklist
☐Dissertation Proposal ☐Field Exam Proposal ☐Submitted by ASO Deadline
☐2nd Language Exam Scheduled Language: Portuguese Date: December 11, 2020 (alternative day
December 7-9, 2020). Exam will not be finalized until language exam requirement has been meet
☐2nd Language Exam Completed Language: DONE_____________________
☐Advisor's Approval _____________________________________ Copy of email approval required
for electronic approval.