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RIVERA, MAYRA

Mayra Rivera's work in religious studies engages key Christian themes in relation to current philosophy and theories of gender, coloniality, ethnicity, and race. She is a faculty member at Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Rivera is co-editor (with Catherine Keller and Michael Nausner) of Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire (2004). Her most recent book, Poetics of the Flesh (Duke 2015), explores the connections between theological, philosophical, and political metaphors of body and flesh.


Books by Mayra Rivera

Postcolonial Theologies

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