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Luis N. Rivera-Pagán
Henry Winters Luce Professor of Ecumenics and Mission
Department of History
12 Library Place, 1st Floor
Phone: 609.688.2668
Fax: 609.279.1952
Email: luis.rivera-pagan@ptsem.edu

 
Profile
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Henry Winters Luce Professor of Ecumenics and Mission, holds an S.T.M., an M.A., and a Ph.D., all from Yale University. An American Baptist and a native of Puerto Rico, he is editor of the official report of the Ninth Assembly of the World Council of Churches (Brazil, 2006). He teaches courses on Latin American theology, Third World liberation theologies, theological readings of world literature, and problems and issues in the 16th-century Christianization of the Americas. He is interested in the history of Latin American Christianity, and theology and literature. 
 
Major Publications

A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas (Westminster John Knox Press, 1992)
Mito, Exilio y Demonios: Literature y Teología en América Latina (Publicaciones Puertorriqueñas, 1996)
Essays from the Diaspora (Centro Luterano de Formación Teólogica, Publicaciones El Faro, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Centro Basilea de Investigación, 2002)