Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente

Series Editors: Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández (Catholic Theological Union in Chicago), Miguel H. Díaz (Loyola University Chicago), and Gary Riebe-Estrella, S.V.D. (Catholic Theological Union in Chicago).

This multivolume series re-maps theology and pushes out in new directions from varying coordinates across a spectrum of latinidad as lived in the USA. Authors reconfigure and disrupt key areas like revelation, eschatology, and trinity. Other volumes complicate and advance even further key themes of significance in Latin@ theologies, including the option for culture, religious diversity, and Mary.

Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández is Professor of Hispanic Theology and Ministry and the director of the Hispanic Theology and Ministry Programat the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. A Latin@́ theologian, her publications include the book Theologizing en Espanglish (Orbis), as well as numerous chapters, scholarly and pastoral articles on Latin@́ theologies, theological education, lo popular, sport and theology—with particular focus on béisbol/baseball and Pope Francis on sports. She created, coordinates, and is an author for the “Theology en la Plaza” column in the National Catholic Reporter and her writing has appeared in Commonweal. The founding co-editor of the multivolume series Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente, she is also completing her book ¿El Santo? Baseball and the Canonization of Roberto Clemente (Mercer University Press). A past president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS), she received their Virgilio Elizondo Award in 2012 for “distinguished achievement in theology.”

Miguel H. Díaz is the John Courtney Murray, S.J., University Chair in Public Service at Loyola University Chicago. Dr. Díaz served under President Barack Obama as the 9th U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. He is a co-editor of the series Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente. He is editor of the multi-authored volume one, The Word Became Culture (Orbis 2020) and the author of the third volume, Queer God de Amor (Fordham University Press, 2022). As a public theologian, Professor Diaz regularly engages print, radio, and television media. He is a contributor to the “Theology en la Plaza column for the National Catholic Reporter. As part of his ongoing commitment to advance human rights globally, he participates in a number of diplomatic initiatives in Washington, D.C., including being a member of the Atlantic Council and a member of the Ambassadors Circle at the National Democratic Institute (NDI).

Gary Riebe-Estrella, S.V.D. is Vice President and Academic Dean Emeritus of Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He is co-editor with Timothy Matovina of Horizons of the Sacred and author of numerous articles and book chapters.  He is particularly interested in the religious imagination of the Nahua and what appears to be the symbiotic nature of the result of its encounter with sixteenth century Spanish Catholicism in Mexican and Mexican-American popular religion. He has served twice as president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS). He is currently working on a book focused on the ecclesiology of Mexican-Americans rooted in their lived experience. He is co-editor of the multivolume series Disruptive Cartographers: Doing Theology Latinamente.