The Aesthetics of Solidarity
![]() 208 pp., 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9781647120900 (164712090X) 208 pp., 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 9781647120917 (1647120918) July 2021 Moral Traditions series EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Reviews |
The Aesthetics of Solidarity
Our Lady of Guadalupe and American Democracy
Nichole M. Flores
Nichole M. Flores is an assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of several scholarly articles and is a contributing writer for America magazine. She was the recipient of the 2015 Catherine Mowry LaCugna Award for the best academic essay in Catholic theology from the Catholic Theological Society of America. David Cloutier, Darlene Weaver, and Andrea Vicini, SJ
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"Cornel West points out that Christianity is ultimately a narrative about good triumphing over evil. John Milbank asserts that Christianity's appeal lies in the inherent beauty of this salvific story. Nichole Flores, grounded in the rich heritage of Guadalupan devotion and Catholic social teaching, makes the bold claim that talk of truth and beauty cannot be separated from ethics and social justice. Her activist Latinx perspective shakes up and transforms the staid public discourse on the role of religious and cultural particularity in democratic processes."—Rubén Rosario Rodríguez, professor of systematic theology, Saint Louis University "At a moment when society is fraying and politics is polarized Flores provides a rich, ethical conception of democratic solidarity and its centrality to a politics of the common good in a pluralistic context. Arguing against key liberal philosophers, Flores's theologically and aesthetically sophisticated political theology of solidarity creatively draws on a set of resources rooted in Latine responses to oppression, including movements for social justice, political campaigns, theatre, popular religious celebrations of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and experiences of lo cotidiano. In doing so the book models the best of what teologia en conjunto means both in practice and in scholarship."—Luke Bretherton, Robert E. Cushman Professor of Moral & Political Theology, Duke University Table of Contents Introduction 1. A Political Theology of Guadalupe and Juan Diego 2. Rawls's Liberal Imagination 3. Nussbaum's Liberal Aesthetics 4. Lifting Up the Lowly 5. The Aesthetic Dimension of Solidarity Bibliography About the Author |