Touched by This Place: Theological Writing and the Power of Place - Paperback

by Benjamin Valent?n (Author)

In Touched By This Place, Benjam?n Valent?n brings readers on his journey to answer the question, "Can you tell us where exactly this work was born?" Paying particular attention to Spanish Harlem, where he grew up and lived for twenty-seven years, Valent?n encourages readers to recognize how the reality of place as source or wellspring influences and is influenced by human thought, experience, memory, identity, and activity.

Joining a broader movement of place studies in the humanities and social sciences, Touched By This Place calls Christian theology to return to place and places-based thinking and demonstrated this return with a careful attention to and love for the place one calls "home."

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RELIGION / Christian Theology

RELIGION / Christian Theology / Liberation

RELIGION / Christian Theology / Anthropology

Touched by this Place

Theology, Community, and the Power of Place

Benjamín Valentín

Cover design: Michael Calvente

Cover photo: "Street Scene, 101^st Street, Spanish Harlem, New York City, New York, USA, Bernard Gotfryd, 1967," Glasshouse Images, Alamy Stock Photo

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ISBN 978-1-62698-573-5

Author Biography

Benjamín Valentín is a diasporic Puerto Rican by way of East Harlem in New York City. A cross-disciplinary scholar, he is professor of theology and Latinx studies at the Clough School of Theology and Ministry, Boston College. He has been a frequent faculty member in the Hispanic Summer Program and, since 1999, has worked with the Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium.