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:
- Afro-Latinidad and Theological Education
- Sexuality, Gender, and Queerness
- Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and Religious “Nones”
- InterReligious and InterCultural Engagement
- 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

Professor Emerita
Theology and Religious Studies
University of San Diego

Professor
Old Testament
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Sexuality, Gender, and Queerness

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”
Professor of Religious Studies
Azusa Pacific University
Alicia M. Reyes-Barriéntez
Assistant Professor of Government
Northwest Vista College
InterReligious and InterCultural Engagement
Associate Dean for Students and Community Life and Clinical Assistant Professor for Contextual Theology
Boston University School of Theology

Professor and Chair, Philosophy and Religion, LatinX/Latin American Studies
University of La Verne
Afro-Latinidad and Theological Education

Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
and Caribbean Decolonial Ethics
Pacific School of Religion
Program Coordinator
Hispanic House of Studies at Duke Divinity School
Interdisciplinary and Transnational Methods

Professor, Theology and Religious Studies
University of San Diego

Professor of Worship – Practical Theology
Union Theological Seminary