Secularism Meets Coloniality: Mariategui's Andean Political Theology

This article seeks to clarify the link between Mariategui's political theology and his critique of modern-secular-coloniality. I argue that understanding the place and the significance of Mariategui's critique of secularism/colonialism helps us grasp the fuller extent of Mariategui's...

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Published in:Political theology
Main Author: An Yountae (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2017]
In: Political theology
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mariátegui, José Carlos 1894-1930 / Colonialism / Secularism / Religion / Marxism
RelBib Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
FD Contextual theology
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBR Latin America
NCC Social ethics
Further subjects:B Coloniality
B Modernity
B Jose Carlos Mariategui
B Political Theology
B Secularism
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Summary:This article seeks to clarify the link between Mariategui's political theology and his critique of modern-secular-coloniality. I argue that understanding the place and the significance of Mariategui's critique of secularism/colonialism helps us grasp the fuller extent of Mariategui's thought, a pioneering critic of modernity in the early twentieth century who keenly understood the limits of modern-liberal framework for analyzing the political problems of Latin America. Mariategui's reading of Marx and revolution raises important challenges to various forms of twenty-first-century political theologies that tackle modernity from within Western liberal modernity (postmodern theories and philosophies). Mariategui offers important insights not only for critics of the secular and modernity who fail to attest to the important question of coloniality from which secularism/modernity must be disentangled, but also for critics of colonialism/coloniality who fail to view religion as the key fabric of coloniality.
Item Description:Das Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 18 Numbers 7-8 November-December 2017"
ISSN:1462-317X
Contains:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2017.1325991