The Atlantic Return and the Payback of Evangelization
This article explores Catholic, transnational Latin American migration to Rome as a gendered and ethnicized Atlantic Return, which is figured as a source of ‘new blood’ that fortifies the Catholic Church but which also profoundly unsettles it. I analyze this Atlantic Return as an angle on the affect...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2013]
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Religion & gender
Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 207-221 |
Further subjects: | B
Atlantic Return
B transnational migration B Rome B De Certeau B Catholicism B Latin America B Economy of the Gift |
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Summary: | This article explores Catholic, transnational Latin American migration to Rome as a gendered and ethnicized Atlantic Return, which is figured as a source of ‘new blood’ that fortifies the Catholic Church but which also profoundly unsettles it. I analyze this Atlantic Return as an angle on the affective force of history in critical relation to two main sources: Diego Von Vacano’s reading of the work of Bartolomeo de las Casas, a 16th-century Spanish Dominican friar; and to Nelson Maldonado-Torres’ notion of the ‘coloniality of being’ which he suggests has operated in Atlantic relations as enduring and present forms of racial de-humanization. In his view this latter can be counterbalanced by embracing an economy of the gift understood as gendered. However, I argue that in the light of a contemporary payback of evangelization related to the original ‘gift of faith’ to the Americas, this economy of the gift is less liberatory than Maldonado- Torres imagines, and instead part of a polyfaceted reproduction of a postsecular neoliberal affective, and gendered labour regime. |
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ISSN: | 1878-5417 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion & gender
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18785417-00302004 |