Transoccidentalism

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What might be a new grammar for the study of theology and Christianity, particularly in today’s American Global South? Ask Dr. Oscar García-Johnson, who coined the term “transoccidentality”. He tells Dr. Kay Higuera Smith that part of his motivation to write Spirit Outside the Gate: Decolonial Pneumatologies of the American Global South (InterVarsity Press, 2019) was to offer other approaches to theology and the church. Born in Honduras, Dr. García-Johnson hopes to change the terms of the conversation—“disrupting the power dynamic of language and representation”—where even the “minoritized of the minoritized” have a seat at the table.

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