Spiritual Memory, Spatial Affects and Churchstateness in a Popular Uprising in Afro Colombia’s Pacific Littoral
This article analyzes the leadership of the local Catholic Church in a forceful social movement of resistance against long-dated marginalization, inequality, and multi-faceted forms of violence in the main city-port in Colombia’s pacific littoral: Buenaventura’s Civic Strike process. Based on interv...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2024
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Political theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 258–277 |
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Buenaventura’s civic strike
B Popular Catholicism B Peacebuilding B Religion B Church and state B Affects B Latin America |
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| Summary: | This article analyzes the leadership of the local Catholic Church in a forceful social movement of resistance against long-dated marginalization, inequality, and multi-faceted forms of violence in the main city-port in Colombia’s pacific littoral: Buenaventura’s Civic Strike process. Based on interviews conducted with religious and lay participants, it explores how spiritual memory, social space, and collective affects act as the enabling condition for this leadership, a condition that the interviewees characterize as a relation of trust between people and Church. The paper argues that this affect of trust implies complex intersections between social protest, Church and State that require, in turn, a different conceptualization of the social space. One that challenges secularism as an epistemology of the social by overcoming its distinctive clear-cut divisions between Church and State, and between State and civil society. The notion of “churchstateness,” proposed in recent literature, is hence tested as an alternative analytic. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2024.2308395 |