Liturgies for Resisting Empire

Liturgies for Resisting Empire

Seeking Community, Belonging, and Peace in a Dehumanizing World

Kat Armas
Brazos Press, 2025
ISBN 9781587436499

Softcover, 224 pp.
8.4 X 5.5 X 0.8 inches | 0.5 pounds

"A thought-provoking look at the intertwining of religion and social control."--Publishers Weekly

Everyone wants to belong. But what does belonging look like in the context of living within an empire and its ideologies?

In Liturgies for Resisting Empire, Cuban American theologian and writer Kat Armas provides a roadmap for Christians seeking a countercultural way of living that prioritizes community and humanity over dominance and power. Armas combines spiritual practices and biblical theology to help us create authentic belonging to God, ourselves, each other, and creation.

This book offers hope for Christians struggling to live faithfully within systems of exploitation and oppression as it

● explains what "empire" is in our modern day;
● gives practical spiritual guidance for resisting empire's daily influence;
● explores how early Christians navigated imperial pressures; and
● offers community-building strategies and help to cultivate spaces of authentic belonging.

Discover a spiritual way of life that you actually want to belong to--one liturgy at a time.

Kat Armas (MDiv, MAT, Fuller Theological Seminary) is a Cuban American writer and podcaster and the recipient of Fuller Seminary's Frederick Buechner Award for Excellence in Writing. She is pursuing a ThM at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Armas is the author of two books, Abuelita Faith and Sacred Belonging. She has written for Christianity Today, Sojourners, Christians for Biblical Equality, Fuller Youth Institute, Fathom magazine, and Missio Alliance.