The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology

Lilian Calles Barger is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, who as a child immigrated to the United States with her parents. She holds a Ph.D. in humanities/history of ideas and currently works as an independent scholar. Her expertise is in the relationship between religion and modernity, cultural history, women, and feminism. She has published two previous books and written for Women's Studies Journal, Aeon, Yes! Magazine, Christian Century, the anthology The Religious Left in Modern America: Doorkeepers of a Radical Faith (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) with her essay "Pray to God, She Will Hear Us," and online venues. She has served a podcast host for the New Books in Gender Studies, part of the New Books Network, having produced over one hundred episodes. She lives in Taos, New Mexico. Lilian@Lilianbarger.com