Raimundo César Barreto, Jr.
History & Ecumenics
Religion & Society
333 Lenox House
Phone: 609.497.7763
Fax: 609.924.2973
raimundo.barreto@ptsem.edu
Baptist
Profile
Raimundo César Barreto, Jr., PhD '06, is associate professor of world Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. An ordained Baptist minister, he earned a PhD degree in religion and society from Princeton Theological Seminary, and holds degrees from the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Brazil and McAfee School of Theology/Mercer University. Before joining the Princeton Seminary faculty, he taught at the Northeastern Baptist Seminary and at Faculdade Batista Brasileira in Brazil, and also served as director of freedom and justice at the Baptist World Alliance (BWA). He remains involved in ecumenical and interfaith work, contributing in different capacities with the American Baptist Churches USA, the Baptist World Alliance, and the National Council of Churches USA. His teaching and research span different disciplines, including world Christianity, Latin American and Latinx religions, and intercultural and interfaith relations, and liberation and decolonial theologies. His recent publications include the co-edited volumes Migration and Public Discourse in World Christianity (Fortress Press, 2019) and Decolonial Christianities: Latin American and Latinx Perspectives (Palgrave/McMillan, 2019), and the book Evangélicos e Pobreza no Brasil: Encontros e Respostas Éticas, 2ed (Editora Recriar/Editora Unida, 2019). He is also the general editor of the series World Christianity and Public Religion (Fortress Press). Among his current projects, he is writing a book on the Latin American contributions to ecumenical thought and praxis, and is co-editing the third volume of the series World Christianity and Public Religion, World Christianity, Urbanization, and Identity (Fortress Press, forthcoming).
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