Conversion to Coloniality: Avoiding the Colonization of Method
Caution should be exercised when any defence of mission tends towards a universalizing of a theologically ideal definition of conversion. Such a defence may theologically justify mission against the charge of colonizing minds, while resulting in the colonizing of method. Bruin Stanley assumes that t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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International review of mission
Year: 2008, Volume: 97, Issue: 384/385, Pages: 65-77 |
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| Summary: | Caution should be exercised when any defence of mission tends towards a universalizing of a theologically ideal definition of conversion. Such a defence may theologically justify mission against the charge of colonizing minds, while resulting in the colonizing of method. Bruin Stanley assumes that the perspective of converts can he mentally occupied by the scholar, who can then simultaneously speak for the converted and justify mission incursion. In response, this article argues for the importance of the category of “coloniality”. First, the theological significance of coloniality is demonstrated in relation to context, critical awareness and liberative purpose. Second, three methodological characteristics are identified. Particularism is the acknowledgement that understandings of conversion are affected by the existential as well as theological tradition. Subject-positioning results in a scepticism towards universalized definitions and attempts to bermeneutically occupy the perspective of others. Consequently, transformation in the form of theological decolonization is sought. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International review of mission
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-6631.2008.tb00627.x |
