Discovering the People: Theology, Culture and Politics in the Argentine Catholicism of the Seventies

Analytical and Native Concepts in Argentina’s Post-Conciliar Catholicism: The Case of “Liberationism”, “Popular Pastoral Theology”, and “Theology of the People”

“…In the following decades, this school of theology was also known by other names, such as), the Argentine School of popular pastoral (Alliende 1976), populist theology (Oliveros 1977), theology from the praxis of the Latin American peoples (Scannone 1976(Scannone , [1982 1983), theology of culture, and popular religiosity theology (Scannone 1974a(Scannone , 1990a. By the turn of the century, and especially after the election to the papacy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the term "theology of the people" became the overarching denomination for all the developments of this theological school since its inception (Scannone 2013(Scannone , 2014a(Scannone , 2014b(Scannone , 2015a(Scannone , 2015b(Scannone , 2015c(Scannone , 2015d(Scannone , 2017(Scannone , 2019Zanca 2022). Here, I will use "TP" with a synchronic perspective, to refer to all these developments considered as a whole and coherent body of theological thought, and I will use "TPp" or any other variety of TP under a diachronic perspective, focused on a specific version of that theological thought, anchored in a specific historical period.…”