In a context of oppression, it seems that theology, across religious divisions, fulfills one of two tasks: it either underpins and supports the structures and institutions of oppression or it performs this function in relation to the struggle for liberation. Accommodation theology tries to accommodate and justify the dominant status quo 'with its racism, capitalism and totalitarianism. It blesses injustice, canonizes the will of the powerful and reduces the poor to passivity, obedience and apathy' (The Kairos Document 1985, p. 13). It focuses on questions of personal conversion and salvation while it ignores or denies the role which socio-economic structures play in the shaping of personal values.
-Farid Esack, Qur'an, Liberation & Pluralism: An Islamic Perspective of Interreligious Solidarity Against Oppression, (Oxford: Oneworld, 1997), p. 7.
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