David Thomas Orique, O.P. (Ph.D., University of Oregon) is
Associate Professor at Providence College. His is author of To
Heaven or to Hell: Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Confesionario (Penn
State, 2018), and co-editor of Oxford Handbook of Latin American
Christianity (2019).
Rady Roldán-Figueroa (Th.D., Boston University) is Associate
Professor at Boston University. He is the author of The Ascetic
Spirituality of Juan de Avila (1499-1569) (Brill, 2010), and
co-editor of Collected Works of Hanserd Knollys: Pamphlets on
Religion (2017).
"This collection of extremely well-written and well-researched
articles has managed to not only say some but very many new things
about a seemingly over-studied subject. The editors and authors of
this work are most assuredly to be congratulated."
Donald J. Kagay, University of Dallas. in The Sixteenth Century
Journal 52.1 (2021): 165–167
“This new volume’s selection of themes and authors, as well as its
overall design, makes it one of the last decade’s most significant
contributions to research on the sixteenth-century Dominican and
bishop of Chiapas. […] Orique and Roldán-Figueroa have done
splendid work as editors in selecting essays that demonstrate the
enduring history and complexity of Las Casas’s polemical
propositions, which have shaped modern intellectual thinking about
liberation, equality, and social justice.”
Santa Arias, University of Kansas. In: Hispanic American Historical
Review, Vol. 101, No. 2 (May 2021), pp. 314–316.
“The introductory essay alone is worth obtaining the book, as it
provides a fantastic bibliography for scholarship on Las Casas as
well as a succinct but informative history of the reception of Las
Casas by scholars from the nineteenth century to present day.
Interested readers are directed to more detailed accounts of this
history, but the framework of “three waves” provided by Orique and
Roldán-Figueroa allows the essays that follow to fall into place as
part of the 'third wave' of Lascasian scholarship. By this they
mean that the volume is intentionally interdisciplinary in its
content, as well as international in its scope. Without choosing
either Latin America or Spain as the primary locus for interpreting
Las Casas’s life, the editors and collaborators reveal the
continued importance of Las Casas for a variety of projects and
histories.”
Catherine Kuiper, Hillsdale College. In: Journal of Markets and
Morality, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2020), pp. 237–238.
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