After Pestilence

<p>Theology according to liberation theologians is only a second step. The first is praxis. A liberating praxis puts the poor and the marginalised at the centre. It is found in the collective response of global religious communities responding to crises - and a global pandemic offers an important case in point reminding religions of our shared humanity and the need for interreligious cooperation and understanding to effect a positive response.</p><p><br></p><p>In the context of seismic socio-economic and political change religion provides a communal response for feeding the poor fighting for their rights and challenging the post-colonial financial model that is now beginning to lose its ground.</p><p><br></p><p>This book blends an examination of emerging research on the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in marginalised communities with the author's own research on social and poverty isolation in India and his own experience as told in diaries written whilst in lockdown in a poor district of Santiago Chile. It challenges majority world churches and religions in a post-pandemic world to learn from each other and from Jesus' own identification with the outcast and urges them to take on a way of life and prophetic learning from the world of the poor.</p>