Qu(e)er(y)ing Mary: Popular Mariology as Visual Liberation Theology. (1st January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Edwin Greenlee
• Is Part Of: Horizontes decoloniales. Number 2(2016)
• Page Start: 75
• Page End: 104
• Publication Date: 2016-01-01
• Subjects: Religion and politics -- Periodicals; Postcolonial theology -- Periodicals; Postcolonial theology; Religion and politics; Periodicals; 201.72
• DOI: 10.13169/decohori.2.0075
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2422-6343

Abstract

Abstract: This article looks at popular Latin American Mariology expressed visually and discusses the conflict between popular and elite theological discourses surrounding Mary in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Following Michel Foucault's paradigm of local versus erudite knowledge, this article postulates a conflict between popular and erudite theologies of Mary enacted visually in Latin America. This conflict reveals the potential that popular Mariology, combined with indigenous goddess traditions and imported African religious beliefs, has offered to those who are socially marginalized, including the poor, women, and queer individuals. Keywords : Mariology, Latin America, Queer Liberation Theologies, Michel Foucault, Marcella Althaus-Reid..