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Decolonial Christianities

Part of the New Approaches to Religion and Power Book Series

Editors: Barreto, Raimundo; Sirvent, Roberto

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-24166-7

ISBN: 978-3-030-24165-0

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Nov 12, 2019

1 - 10 of 15 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Barreto, Raimundo; Sirvent, Roberto

Pages: 1 –21

[In her essay, “The Bible and 500 years of Conquest,” Mexican-born biblical scholar Elsa Tamez invites Christians to move beyond trying to construct “liberating hermeneutics” and instead focus on “a critical analysis of our own Christian-biblical discourse.” Commenting on the limits of “Western...
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Epistemological Decolonization of Theology

Dussel, Enrique

Pages: 25 –42

[This chapter discusses the theoretical rupture originated with the epistemological turn in the realm of the sciences produced by Latin American and Latinx theories of decolonization, and its impact on theology. The Epistemological decolonization of Christianity requires the relocation of...
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Towards a Decolonial Theology: Perspectives from the Caribbean

Rivera-Pagán, Luis N.

Pages: 43 –61

[This chapter develops the following topics: (1) The linkages between the Iberian conquest and Christianization of Latin America and the Caribbean, and the emergence of modernity, global empire, and capitalism. Latin America and the Caribbean became the cradle of modern expressions of Western...
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Mesoamerican Women’s Indigenous Spirituality: Decolonizing Religious Belief

Marcos, Sylvia

Pages: 63 –87

[Using documents, declarations, and proposals from the 2002 First Indigenous Women’s Summit of the Americas, Marcos discusses the ways in which indigenous women are simultaneously working for social justice and creating an “indigenous spirituality.” This indigenous spirituality differs not only...
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Mapping the Autochthonous Indigenous Church: Toward a Decolonial History of Christianity in las Américas

Hughes, Jennifer Scheper

Pages: 91 –105

[Toward a decolonial history of Christianity in Latin America, this chapter identifies indigenous counterclaims to the Spanish narrative of spiritual conquest. In the course of the sixteenth century, indigenous communities across New Spain grafted the Christian church onto their own histories,...
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Indigenous Christianities: Ritual, Resilience, and Resistance Among the Nahuas in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Gutiérrez, Verónica A.

Pages: 107 –127

[Drawing upon her work on the emergence of indigenous Christianity in colonial Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, Verónica A. Gutiérrez provides readers with an overview of the current historiography on native ritual, resilience, and resistance to the introduction of European Catholicism in...
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Iglesia Autóctona: An Indigenous Response to Colonial Christianity

Andraos, Michel

Pages: 129 –145

[This chapter briefly tells the story of the emergence of an iglesia autóctona, a local church with Indigenous face and heart in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, told from an historical perspective through an outsider’s eyes. It’s a story about how this local church has been facing...
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Indigenous Decolonial Movements in Abya Yala, Aztlán, and Turtle Island: A Comparison

Medina, Néstor

Pages: 147 –163

[This chapter presents a sociohistorical, political, and religious exploration of the decolonizing effects of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Canada and Guatemala. The indigenous communities in each country, despite their geographical, religious, and cultural differences, are...
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Decolonizing the Cosmo-Polis: Cosmopolitanism as a Rehumanizing Project

Yountae, An

Pages: 167 –182

[This chapter takes a critical approach to cosmopolitanism by examining the formative historical moments of Western cosmopolitanism. I examine the 16th century Spanish Valladolid debate with the end of uncovering the colonial-imperial root of modern cosmopolitanism that is the...
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Inversion and Diasporas: Decolonizing Racialized Sexuality Transnationally

Moros, Matilde

Pages: 183 –202

[This work explores decolonizing a multifaceted construction of sexuality, by uncovering colonial Latin American constructions of race and gender, in dialogue with how religion has been a force of this construction. In a process of building a critique to theologies that identified with power...

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