Latinidad in the context of Theological Education

The first of four volumes in the Theological Education ¡Latinamente! series (Fortress Press), “Latinidad in the Context of Theological Education” provides new historical and theoretical perspectives on Latinidad as related to Blackness, indigeneity, interculturality, gender, sexuality, and interreligious realities within the community.

As the first text within the Theological Education ¡Latinamente! series, “Latinidad in the Context of Theological Education” lays the theoretical and historical frameworks for the series writ large. Edited by Maria Pilar Aquino and Greg Cuellar, essays within this volume push readers to critically examine what they believe about the Latinx community and their relationship to theological education all while asking what it looks like have this community’s scholarly, epistemological, and lived contributions shift how we approach education, institutions, and leadership formation.


As the first text within the Theological Education ¡Latinamente! series, “Latinidad in the Context of Theological Education” lays the theoretical and historical frameworks for the series writ large. Edited by Maria Pilar Aquino and Greg Cuellar, essays within this volume push readers to critically examine what they believe about the Latinx community and their relationship to theological education all while asking what it looks like have this community’s scholarly, epistemological, and lived contributions shift how we approach education, institutions, and leadership formation. 

The text is divided into five sections that explore key aspects of Latinidad: 

  1. Afro-Latinidad and Theological Education
  2. Sexuality, Gender, and Queerness
  3. Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Religious “Nones”
  4. InterReligious and InterCultural Engagement
  5. Interdisciplinary and Transnational Methodologies

Through these sections the text as a whole seeks to be at the vanguard of reconceptualizing not just Latinidad, but theological education writ large by critically asking whether we our institutions are serving the Latinx community in its full diversity or a caricature of who the community is said to be. From that critical wrestling, we can build anew. 

Expected Publication Date: June, 2026

Series Editor

Jorge Juan Rodríguez V

Associate Director for Strategic Programming

Hispanic Scholars Program

Editors

Maria Pilar Aquino

Professor Emerita

Theology and Religious Studies

University of San Diego

Gregory Cuellar

Professor

Old Testament

Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

Sexuality, Gender, and Queerness

Melissa Pagán

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Religious Studies

Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles

Elsie Miranda

Director of Diversities

Association for Theological Schools

Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Religious “Nones”

Arlene Sánchez-Walsh

Professor of Religious Studies

Azusa Pacific University

Alicia M. Reyes-Barriéntez

Assistant Professor of Government

Northwest Vista College

InterReligious and InterCultural Engagement

Cristian De La Rosa

Associate Dean for Students and Community Life and Clinical Assistant Professor for Contextual Theology 

Boston University School of Theology

Elaine Padilla

Professor and Chair, Philosophy and Religion, LatinX/Latin American Studies

University of La Verne

Afro-Latinidad and Theological Education

Alexandra M. Rosado-Román 

Assistant Professor of Gender Studies 

and Caribbean Decolonial Ethics

Pacific School of Religion

Yolanda Santiago-Correa

Program Coordinator

Hispanic House of Studies at Duke Divinity School

Interdisciplinary and Transnational Methods

Jackie Hidalgo

Professor, Theology and Religious Studies

University of San Diego

Cláudio Carvalhaes

Professor of Worship – Practical Theology

Union Theological Seminary

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