RT Article
T1 Resistance and the Sacred: An Approach to the Various Meanings of the "Right to the Sacred" in Mexico Today
JF Open theology
VO 4
IS 1
SP 228
OP 235
A1 Rabinovici, Silvana
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1830002805
AB This article analyses a certain philosophical (ethical and political) interpretation of "the sacred" as brought up by native world views of indigenous peoples in the American continent from a decolonial approach. Translation is used as resistance that resounds in the social-environmental struggles in our continent nowadays, particularly in Mexico. The appropriation of the term "sacred" by native peoples reveals the colonial political theory of the State. By challenging consumerism and ecological destruction, the translation of the indigenous concept of ‟sacred" into an ecological conception of intrinsic link between people and "nature" enables a dialogue between those cultures and the warning of modern science about global warming and the over-exploitation of the earth’s resources.
K1 Decolonial
K1 Heteronomy
K1 native peoples
K1 religion in Mexico
K1 Resistance
K1 right to the sacred
K1 Translation
DO 10.1515/opth-2018-0016