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Dr. Maria Pilar Aquino Engages with the Question: What Should be Done for Impoverished Third-World People?
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Interview Date
7-3-2002
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Abstract
What should be done for impoverished third-world people?
Dr. Maria Pilar Aquino discusses the need for Church to play a more prominant role in third world countries in order to guide advancements in society and theology.
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Maria Pilar Aquino and Alfred Benney. "Dr. Maria Pilar Aquino Engages with the Question: What Should be Done for Impoverished Third-World People?" (2002) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alfred_benney/89/
Playing Time: 1:01 minutes
About the Interviewee:
Maria Pilar Aquino, S.T.D. currently teaches at the University of San Diego. She is a Catholic Latina Theologian whose primary areas are liberation theologies, social ethics, and feminist theologies, with special interests in intercultural approaches, conflict transformation, and religious peacebuilding studies. She was co-founder and first woman president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States and has authored more than fifty books and Journal articles.
About the Interviewer:
Dr. Alfred Benney is a professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. He has a Ph.D in Theology from the Hartford Seminary Foundation and teaches courses in Non-Traditional American Religions and Christian Religious Thought. His research interests include "how people learn"; "the appropriate use of technology in teaching/learning" and "myth as explanatory narrative". He has published work on teaching with technology.