Towards a Political Theology of Radical Democracy: Notes on a Popular Uprising in Afro-Colombia’s Pacific Littoral
In this paper I conceptualize the political theology at play in a recent popular uprising in Buenaventura, the main city-port in Colombia’s pacific littoral. This political theology emerges from the testimonies of people who participated in the events, and the theo-political vocabulary they employ i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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Political theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 119-136 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Buenaventura (Colombia)
/ Strike
/ Geschichte 2017
/ Liberation theology
/ Political theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBR Latin America |
| Further subjects: | B
Liberation Theology
B Latin American Catholicism B religion and social movements B decolonial religion B religion and democracy B Political Theology B Buenaventura's Civic Strike |
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| Summary: | In this paper I conceptualize the political theology at play in a recent popular uprising in Buenaventura, the main city-port in Colombia’s pacific littoral. This political theology emerges from the testimonies of people who participated in the events, and the theo-political vocabulary they employ in narrating what happened. To elaborate on it, I follow the thread of the relation between Church and people which enabled the former’s leadership in the uprising. First, I examine the oblique and uncertain relation between this spiritual memory and the tradition of liberation theology in Latin America. Secondly, I specify the distinctive constellation of sovereignty, antagonism and affective bonds performed in the uprising, by staging a counterpoint between these events and figures of the Europe-centered political theology tradition such as Schmitt and Durkheim. Through these two movements, the paper explores the singularity of the temporal and the affective experiences of this political process and event, and the force of its decolonial critique. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2038947 |