Latin American Liberation Theology and Postcolonial Studies: Overview, Assessment, and Suggestions on ‘Liberation' from a Liberationist-Postcolonial Standpoint

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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Puggioni, Roberto (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill [2018]
In: Religion & theology
Jahr: 2018, Band: 25, Heft: 3/4, Seiten: 313-349
weitere Schlagwörter:B Liberation Theology
B Western imperialism
B Postcolonial Theology
B Latin America
B Capitalism
B Postcolonial Studies
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1574-3012
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religion & theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02503011