This course introduces Liberation Theologies emerging from Black, Latin American, and Queer Christian thinkers of the past sixty years, and explores how they continue to impact contemporary social justice struggles including (but not limited to) the movements for Black Lives, immigrant, undocumented, and transgender human rights. Engaging the revolutionary biblical interpretation of thinkers including James Cone, Gustavo Gutierrez, Marcella Althaus-Reid, and others, we will examine how scripture can be activated for the dismantling of the powers, principalities, and spiritual wickedness that materialize as forces of evil. Students will explore the dominant theoretical approaches to and methodological understandings of religious colonial histories, freedom, tradition, liberation, and revelation. Connecting these theologies to their own commitments, they learn how liberation is lived out in everyday practices of theological kinship, justice-making, and celebrating the kin-dom of God in our midst. Students from all faith traditions or no faith tradition are welcome to enroll.