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Rev. Dr. '''Miguel A. De La Torre''' (born October 6, 1958 - ) is an associate-professor of social ethics at [[Iliff School of Theology]], a religious scholar,<ref>[http://www.iliff.edu/academics/faculty/profiles/mdelatorre/index.php "http://www.iliff.edu/academics/faculty/profiles/mdelatorre/index.php"]</ref> author, and ordained minister. |
Rev. Dr. '''Miguel A. De La Torre''' (born October 6, 1958 - ) is an associate-professor of social ethics at [[Iliff School of Theology]], a religious scholar,<ref>[http://www.iliff.edu/academics/faculty/profiles/mdelatorre/index.php "http://www.iliff.edu/academics/faculty/profiles/mdelatorre/index.php"]</ref> author, and ordained minister. |
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==Biography== |
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Born in Cuba months before the Castro Revolution, Miguel A. De La Torre and his family came to the United States as refugees when he was six months old. For a while the U.S. government considered him an “illegal immigrant.” He attended Blessed Sacrament School in Queens, New York and was baptized and confirmed by the Catholic Church. Meanwhile, his parents were devotees and priest/priestess of the religion [[Santería]].<ref>[http://www.eerdmans.com/Interviews/delatorreinterview.htm "http://www.eerdmans.com/Interviews/delatorreinterview.htm"]</ref> De La Torre's early childhood was marked by a spiritual hybridity based on his Catholic and Santería faiths. He left Queens, moving to Miami, Florida in his teens. |
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At the age of nineteen, he began a real estate company in Miami called Championship Realty, [[Century 21]]. The office grew to over 100 sales agents. During this time he also obtained a Masters in Public Administration from [[American University]] in Washington, DC. Eventually he was elected president of the Miami Board of Realtors. He was also active in local politics, becoming the founding president of the West Dade Young Republicans. In 1988 he was a candidate for the Florida House of Representatives, District 115, but lost to [[Mario Diaz-Balart]]. |
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In his early twenties he became a “born-again” Christian and joined University Baptist Church in Coral Gables, Florida. De La Torre dissolved the thirteen-year-old real estate company and attended [[Southern Baptist Theological Seminary]] in order to obtain a Masters in Divinity. During his seminary training he served as pastor to a rural congregation, Goshen Baptist Church in Glen Dean, Kentucky. |
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==Scholarship== |
==Scholarship== |
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De La Torre obtained a doctorate from [[Temple University]] in social ethics. The focus of his academic pursuit has been ethics within contemporary U.S. thought, specifically how religion affects race, class, and gender oppression. He specializes in applying a social scientific approach to Latino/a religiosity within this country, [[Liberation theologies]] in the Caribbean and Latin America, and postmodern/postcolonial social theory. |
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In 1999 he was hired to teach Christian Ethics at [[Hope College]] in Holland, MI. In 2005 he wrote a column for the local newspaper, ''The Holland Sentinel'', titled “When the Bible is Used for Hatred.”<ref> [http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5314 "http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5314"] </ref> The article was a satirical piece commenting on [[Focus on the Family]]’s [[James Dobson]] outing of SpongeBob Square Pants. A few days later, Dobson responded to the article.<ref>[http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5446 "http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5446"]</ref> De La Torre resigned his tenure. Since then, he has been serving as the associate professor for social ethics at [[Iliff School of Theology]] in Denver, Colorado. |
In 1999 he was hired to teach Christian Ethics at [[Hope College]] in Holland, MI. In 2005 he wrote a column for the local newspaper, ''The Holland Sentinel'', titled “When the Bible is Used for Hatred.”<ref> [http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5314 "http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5314"] </ref> The article was a satirical piece commenting on [[Focus on the Family]]’s [[James Dobson]] outing of SpongeBob Square Pants. A few days later, Dobson responded to the article.<ref>[http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5446 "http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5446"]</ref> De La Torre resigned his tenure. Since then, he has been serving as the associate professor for social ethics at [[Iliff School of Theology]] in Denver, Colorado. |
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Rev. Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre (born October 6, 1958 - ) is an associate-professor of social ethics at Iliff School of Theology, a religious scholar,[1] author, and ordained minister.
Scholarship
De La Torre obtained a doctorate from Temple University in social ethics. The focus of his academic pursuit has been ethics within contemporary U.S. thought, specifically how religion affects race, class, and gender oppression. He specializes in applying a social scientific approach to Latino/a religiosity within this country, Liberation theologies in the Caribbean and Latin America, and postmodern/postcolonial social theory.
In 1999 he was hired to teach Christian Ethics at Hope College in Holland, MI. In 2005 he wrote a column for the local newspaper, The Holland Sentinel, titled “When the Bible is Used for Hatred.”[2] The article was a satirical piece commenting on Focus on the Family’s James Dobson outing of SpongeBob Square Pants. A few days later, Dobson responded to the article.[3] De La Torre resigned his tenure. Since then, he has been serving as the associate professor for social ethics at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.
Since obtaining his doctorate in 1999, De La Torre has authored numerous articles and books, including the award-winning Reading the Bible from the Margins, (Orbis, 2002); Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004); and Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins, (Orbis, 2004).[4] Within the academy he has served as a director to the Society of Christian Ethics[5] and the American Academy of Religion[6]. Additionally, he has been co-chair of the Ethics Section at the American Academy of Religion.
De La Torre has been an expert commentator concerning ethical issues (mainly Hispanic religiosity, LGBT civil rights[7], and immigration rights) on several local, national, and international media outlets. A scholar-activist, De La Torre has written numerous articles in popular media. He writes monthly columns for Ethics Daily and Associated Baptist Press News.
Works
BOOKS[8]:
Social Justice from a Latina/o Perspective: Constructing a Latina/o Ethics for Survival, 2013.
Genesis: A Theological Commentary on the Bible, 2012.
Trails of Hope and Terror: Testimonies on Immigration, 2009.
Liberating Jonah: Toward a Biblical Ethics of Reconciliation, 2007.
A Lily Among the Thorns: Imagining a New Christian Sexuality, 2007.
Leer la Biblia desde los Marginados, 2005.
Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins, 2004.
Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America, 2004.
La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami, 2003.
The Quest for the Cuban Christ: A Historical Search, 2002.
Reading the Bible from the Margins, 2002.
Ajiaco Christianity: Toward an Exilic Cuban Ethic of Reconciliation, Ph.D. diss., 1999.
MULTI-AUTHORED BOOK PUBLICATIONS:
Introducing Hispanic Ethics, co-authored with Maria Teresa Davila, Ismael Garcia, and Hugo Magallanes, 2011.
The Quest for the Historical Satan, co-authored with Albert Hernandez, 2010
Introducing Latino/a Theologies, co-authored with Edwin Aponte, 2001.
EDITED BOOKS:
Out of the Shadows, Into the Light: Christianity and Homosexuality, 2009.
The Hope of Liberation within World Religions, 2008.
AAR Career Guide for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession, 2007.
Rethinking Latino/a Religion and Ethnicity, co-edited with Gaston Espinosa, 2006.
Handbook on Latino/a Theologies, co-edited with Edwin Aponte, 2006.
Handbook on U.S. Theologies of Liberation, 2004.
ENCYCLOPEDIA EDITOR:
Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Culture, Volume 1 & 2, 2009.
References
- ^ "http://www.iliff.edu/academics/faculty/profiles/mdelatorre/index.php"
- ^ "http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5314"
- ^ "http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=5446"
- ^ "http://www.iliff.edu/academics/faculty/profiles/mdelatorre/delatorre_cv3.pdf"
- ^ "http://www.scethics.org/officers.html"
- ^ "http://www.aarweb.org/About_AAR/Board_and_Governance/board.asp"
- ^ "http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=14766"
- ^ "http://www.iliff.edu/academics/faculty/profiles/mdelatorre/delatorre_cv3.pdf"