Filipe Maia

Filipe Maia’s research and teaching focus on liberation theologies and philosophies, continental philosophy, theology and economics, and the Christian eschatological imagination. Dr. Maia’s book, Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism (Duke University Press), offers an analysis of the debate in critical theory addressing the “financialization” of capitalism to show how future-talk is ubiquitous to financial discourse and how contemporary finance engenders a particular mode of temporality. In this context, Dr. Maia suggests that the language of hope, as approached by Latin American liberation theologians, is a subversive social force that can continuously question and resist the hopes and expectations conjured by hegemonic economic discourses. Dr. Maia is currently completing a second monograph that investigates the complexities of the category of value, a term that fluctuates between moral, religious, and economic discourses. Tentatively entitled, A Political Theology of the Worthless, this project will propose that dominant theories of value build themselves up through the exclusion of things, people, and communities construed as “worthless.”