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Lilian Calles Barger

Lilian Calles Barger is an intellectual and cultural historian working as an independent scholar in Taos, New Mexico and received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Dallas. She came to the United States as a child immigrant from Argentina. Her book The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology was published by Oxford University Press (2018) and she has written two previous trade books on women and religion. She is currently researching the history of feminist thought and the gender revolution and considering the role of theology and religion in that change. @lilianbarger

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Book preview – The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology

A shared history begins to explain how in the 1960s, Latin American, feminist, and
black radicals, both Catholics and Protestants, simultaneously and independently arrived at a
common conclusion.