Citation

Gaztambide DJ. J. Relig. Health 2009; 49(4): 642-645.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Academy of Religion and Mental Health, Publisher Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s10943-009-9283-5

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Mary Watkins and Helene Shulman's book Toward Psychologies of Liberation arrives in a time of ongoing upheaval and transformation, as an invitation to a conversation that has emerged from among those at the margins of political interpellation, the last hundred years of struggle and reflection in the wake of 500 years of colonization and increasing globalization. This conversation cuts across the usual economic and political divides of North and South, First and Third worlds by recognizing the changing nature of social struggle as seen in the proliferation of poverty and destitution around the world and the cycles of psychological, economic, and physical violence that leave no clear distinction between oppressor and oppressed. It sees the changing nature of the social struggle as well in the development of new structures of subjectivity, which cannot be framed as belonging either to the powerful or the powerless, but instead remain caught in the middle ground of apathy, ignorance, and a...

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