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A Latino Reading of Race, Kinship, and the Empire

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20305-3

ISBN: 978-3-031-20304-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 17, 2023

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Revisiting the Racial Problem in the Johannine Prologue

Galvan Estrada III, Rodolfo

Pages: 1 –30

[This chapter demonstrates the necessity for a racial reading of John’s prologue. It introduces aspects of the prologue where it portrays otherness, difference, and the disruption of racial identity and race relations. This chapter also situates the study in light of Johannine scholarship on the...
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Reading the Ancient World with Chicano Eyes

Galvan Estrada III, Rodolfo

Pages: 31 –58

[This chapter introduces Latinx hermeneutics as the methodological approach of this study. It reviews some of the key contributors to Latinx hermeneutics by reviewing its early influential pioneers in Latin American Liberation Theology (LALT). It also reviews the diversity of approaches within...
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Race and Representation

Galvan Estrada III, Rodolfo

Pages: 59 –82

[This chapter explores racial representation within Greco-Roman writers by drawing from the insights of Edward Said. It explores how the Persians, Egyptians, and Germans are portrayed by various writers, examining the implications of representations within the literature, its relationship to...
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The Prologue’s Racialized Reality: John 1:1–18

Galvan Estrada III, Rodolfo

Pages: 83 –110

[This chapter provides an initial interpretation of the prologue with special attention to its racial rhetoric. The analysis includes a review of the purpose of prologues, darkness as imperial agents of death (1:4–5), the world as de-ethnicized rhetoric (vv. 9–10), kinship and racial rejection...
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The Prologue and Kinship: A Latino Reading of the Johannine Family

Galvan Estrada III, Rodolfo

Pages: 111 –141

[This chapter examines from a Latino perspective the role of family and kinship in the prologue and gospel narrative. A Latinx understanding of the family is introduced as a paradigm for interpreting the family and kinship language in the prologue and gospel. The prologue anticipates the creation...
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The Prologue and Race: La Raza Cósmica

Galvan Estrada III, Rodolfo

Pages: 143 –186

[This chapter examines from a Latino perspective the role of race, racial representation, and racial rhetoric in the prologue and gospel narrative. Special attention is given to José Vasconcelos’s La Raza Cósmica, which introduces the mestizo ideology used by many Latinx theologians. This...
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The Prologue and Roman Conquest: Bartolomé de Las Casas and Roman Representation

Galvan Estrada III, Rodolfo

Pages: 187 –228

[This chapter reads the prologue as an anti-Roman story. By exploring the conquest of the Americas as narrated by Bartolomé de Las Casas and various Roman writers, a new interpretation of the prologue is proposed. This chapter proposes that Roman religious and racial ideology must contribute to...
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Reflexiones y Conclusión

Galvan Estrada III, Rodolfo

Pages: 229 –235

[This chapter provides a review and reflection of John’s prologue considering the themes of kinship, race, and the Roman Empire. A Latino reading of the prologue is provided, along with a Christological reflection on the prologue’s implications for readers today.]

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