RT Article
T1 Latin American Liberation Theology and Postcolonial Studies: Overview, Assessment, and Suggestions on ‘Liberation' from a Liberationist-Postcolonial Standpoint
JF Religion & theology
VO 25
IS 3/4
SP 313
OP 349
A1 Puggioni, Roberto
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/168563494X
AB This paper argues in favour of the need of a continuous decolonisation and contextualisation of theology. Global capitalism, modernity, and the persistent colonial attitudes of the Western world are the phenomena in which to frame the presence of striking inequalities among and within countries. By assuming a liberationist standpoint, the analysis points at the convergence in methods and scopes of the Western postcolonial thought and the Latin American Christian theology of liberation for an effective decolonisation of theology. Liberation, with all its implications, becomes the key term through which to understand this relationship.
K1 Latin America
K1 Western imperialism
K1 Capitalism
K1 Liberation Theology
K1 Postcolonial Studies
K1 Postcolonial Theology
DO 10.1163/15743012-02503011