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• Title: Community Psychology and Liberation Theologies: Commonalities, Collaboration, Dilemmas (Report)
• Author : Journal of Psychology and Theology
• Release Date : January 22, 2011
• Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 233 KB

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Community psychology and liberation theologies share an emphasis on personal and social transfor-mation through a process of liberation. Emerging in the 1960s in the climate of social change movements, both fields serve to challenge the dominant discourse of how and why to perform the tasks of theology and psychology. My purpose in this article is to put these fields into dialogue, with a focus on commonalities, collaboration, and dilemmas. After presenting an overview of the fields and their commonalities, I posit that liberation theologies can enrich the why and where of liberating structural change, whereas community psychology can enrich the how with conceptual tools such as multiple levels of analysis and social change strategies. I conclude with dilemmas internal to these fields and inherent in collaboration. My goal is to promote theoretical and practical collaboration in the quest for liberatory social change. Community psychology and liberation theologies hold great potential to encourage personal and social transformation through a process of liberation. Emerging in the 1960s in the climate of social change movements and influenced by the writings of Paulo Freire (1970/2000), both fields serve to challenge the dominant discourse of how and why to perform the tasks of theology and psychology (Dokecki, 1982). My purpose in this article is to put these fields into dialogue, with a focus on commonalities, collaboration, and dilemmas. After presenting an overview of the fields and their commonalities, I posit that liberation theologies can enrich the why and where of liberating structural change, whereas community psychology can enrich the how with conceptual tools such as multiple levels of analysis and social change strategies. I develop these arguments from my social location as a White-Protestant man, primarily through the lens of community psychology though also informed by my formal theological education. I conclude with dilemmas internal to each field and inherent in potential collaboration.

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