Analisis Praksis Teologi Pembebasan di Nikaragua Studi Kasus: Teologi Pembebasan dan Revolusi 1979

Ayu Diasti Rahmawati, Diah Kusumaningrum

2009 | Skripsi | Ilmu Hubungan Internasional

Abstract When the ideas of liberation theology are introduced to the mid 1960s Latin America, it soon affected most of its Church and its populace. There were responses, in various degrees, towards the idea of Church liberating the people from the oppressor class. Some Church would remain skeptical. They preferred to support the authoritarian junta government than to speak up for the masses which suffered from the government’s repression on a day-to-day basis. On the other hand, there were Churches who took liberation theology straightforwardly as their new ideals. They began to change themselves to be ‘the Church of the people’ and conducted the so-called ‘praxis of liberation’: series of awarenessraising and grass-roots empowering activities. Only in Nicaragua, praxis of liberation theology has been contextualised to the level where it could grow in a more radical way. Not enough with series of awareness-raising, Nicaraguan Catholics also expressed their belief by taking a substantial role in supporting the 1979 Revolution. Considering liberation theology as an ideology, this writing intends to analyse why liberation theology could develop into a more radical idea, and thus could intensify Nicaraguan Churches’ involvement in the Revolution. The argument is that poverty was not the only contributing factor to the radicalisation of liberation theology in Nicaragua. In-depth analysis about the context wherein this theology developed shows that there were other possible contributing factors, both in structural and agency level. Keywords: liberation theology, 1979 Nicaragua Revolution, ideology

Kata Kunci : Teologi Nikaragua