{"id":1401,"date":"2019-09-12T09:39:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T13:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1401"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:46:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T20:46:03","slug":"filipe-maia","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/filipe-maia\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipe Maia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Filipe Maia\u2019s research and teaching focus on liberation theologies and philosophies, continental philosophy, theology and economics, and the Christian eschatological imagination. Dr. Maia\u2019s book, Trading Futures: A Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism (Duke University Press), offers an analysis of the debate in critical theory addressing the \u201cfinancialization\u201d 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 &#8220;worthless.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Publications<\/h2>\n<h3><b class=\"\">Books\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p><span>Trading Futures: Toward a Theological Critique of Financialized Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span>Edited Volumes<\/span><br \/>\n<span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span>Methodism and American Empire: Reflections on Decolonizing the Church, edited by David W. Scott and Filipe Maia (Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 2023).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Decolonizing Wesleyan Theology: Theological Engagements from the Underside of Methodism, edited by Filipe Maia (Eugene, OR: Cascades Books, 2024).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3><b class=\"\"><span class=\"\"><\/span>Articles and Book Chapters\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><span>&#8220;The Haunting of Liberation: Derrida and Dussel, Three Decades Later,\u201d Political Theology. Political Theology, April, 1\u201321.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cJohn Wesley and the Political Economy of Enclosure,\u201d Methodist Review 17 (2025): 29\u201356.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBetrayed by Accent: Theological Notes on a Racist Worldsound.\u201d In Toward Sustainable Societies: Interreligious, Interdisciplinary Responses, Rita Sherma &amp; Purushottama Bilimoria, eds. (Springer, 2022).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAlter-carnation: Notes on Cannibalism and Coloniality in the Brazilian context,\u201d in Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion, An Yountae &amp; Eleanor Craig, eds. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2021).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c\u2018With What Can we Compare the Kingdom of God?\u2019 Latin American Liberation Theology and the Challenge of Political Projects.\u201d Union Seminary Quarterly Review (v. 64, n. 3\/3: 2013).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","sth_faculty_type":[20,223],"sth_phd_student_type":[],"sth_staff_type":[],"sth_alumni_type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58583,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1401\/revisions\/58583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"sth_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_faculty_type?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"sth_phd_student_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_phd_student_type?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"sth_staff_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_staff_type?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"sth_alumni_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sth_alumni_type?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}