Secularism Meets Coloniality: Mariategui's Andean Political Theology. Issue 8 (17th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yountae, An
• Is Part Of: Political theology. Volume 18:Issue 8(2017)
• Page Start: 677
• Page End: 692
• Publication Date: 2017-11-17
• Subjects: Jose Carlos Mariategui -- political theology -- coloniality -- secularism -- modernity; Christianity and politics -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; Political theology -- Periodicals; Christian socialism -- Periodicals; 261.7094105
• DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2017.1325991
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1462-317X

Abstract

Abstract : 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.