Filipe Maia
Assistant Professor of Theology
Filipe Maia’s research and teaching focus on liberation theologies and philosophies, continental philosophy, theology and economics, and the Christian eschatological imagination. Dr. Maia’s book, Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism (Duke University Press), offers an analysis of the debate in critical theory addressing the “financialization” of capitalism to show how future-talk is ubiquitous to financial discourse and how contemporary finance engenders a particular mode of temporality. In this context, Dr. Maia suggests that the language of hope, as approached by Latin American liberation theologians, is a subversive social force that can continuously question and resist the hopes and expectations conjured by hegemonic economic discourses. Dr. Maia is currently completing a second monograph that investigates the complexities of the category of value, a term that fluctuates between moral, religious, and economic discourses. Tentatively entitled, A Political Theology of the Worthless, this project will propose that dominant theories of value build themselves up through the exclusion of things, people, and communities construed as “worthless.”
Publications
Books
Trading Futures: Toward a Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2022).
Edited Volumes
Methodism and American Empire: Reflections on Decolonizing the Church, edited by David W. Scott and Filipe Maia (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2023).
Decolonizing Wesleyan Theology: Theological Engagements from the Underside of Methodism, edited by Filipe Maia (Eugene, OR: Cascades Books, 2024).
Articles and Book Chapters
“The Rise of the Common: Spiritual Revival and Political Revolution in the Wesleyan Movement,” in Methodist Revolutions: Evangelical Engagements of Church and World, Joerg Rieger and Upolu Lumā Vaai, eds. (Wesley’s Fondery Books, 2021).
“Betrayed by Accent: Theological Notes on a Racist Worldsound.” In Toward Sustainable Societies: Interreligious, Interdisciplinary Responses, Rita Sherma & Purushottama Bilimoria, eds. (Springer, 2022).
“Alter-carnation: Notes on Cannibalism and Coloniality in the Brazilian context,” in Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion, An Yountae & Eleanor Craig, eds. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021).
“‘With What Can we Compare the Kingdom of God?’ Latin American Liberation Theology and the Challenge of Political Projects.” Union Seminary Quarterly Review (v. 64, n. 3/3: 2013).
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