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Néstor Medina is a Guatemalan-Canadian scholar and Associate professor of Religious Ethics and Culture at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto He engages ethics from contextual, liberationist, intercultural, and post/decolonial perspectives. His interests include religious/theological ethical ideas, and how these shape social structures and notions of ethnoracial and cultural identity among Latina/o/x communities. For the last 15 years he has been studying the implications of interethnic and intercultural relations in colonial Latin America. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters including Mestizaje: (Re)Mapping ‘Race,’ Culture, and Faith in Latina/o Catholicism (Orbis, 2009), a booklet On the Doctrine of Discovery (CCC, 2017), Christianity, Empire and the Spirit (Brill, 2018). And his recent co-edited volume Decolonizing Church (McGuill-Queen’s University Press, 2025)