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Crossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern
explores critically the racial, socioeconomic, historical, and
political contemporary conditions of the lived experiences of the
subaltern, the oppressed. Through the lens of the decolonial school
of thought developed by Latin American thinkers and scholars, this
text focuses on the identification and analysis of the subalterns'
praxis of living, thinking, knowing, and doing. The contributors
delve into the subalterns' agency at work and how their
[inter]subjective/reflective actions, gestures, and thoughts are
deep-seated in subverting and resisting the material and symbolic
coloniality of power's exploitation, categorization, and
oppression. Drawing from sociological, anthropological, literary,
and historical approaches, a new set of ideas and rationalities
uncovers and challenges the complicities of modernity/coloniality
(power-pattern-matrix) through new narratives and discursive
epistemic-frames of empowerment and agency.
Latin America has been a place of radical political inspiration
providing an alternative to the neoliberal model. Religion without
Redemption looks at the sociology of religion, political philosophy
and the history of ideas of the continent, in an attempt to show
how Western understanding fails to come close to a correct analysis
of how and why political and economic characteristics work as they
do. It focuses on how the centrality of religion for the people of
Latin America has influenced how they interact with the changes in
the modern economic system. Capitalism has taken on religious
characteristics: it has sacred places of worship, such as the
shopping mall, as well as its own prophets. This book explains how
this form of 'cultural religion' accompanies many aspects of life
in a contradictory manner: not only does it fulfil the role of
legitimating oppression, it also can be a powerful source of
rebellion, unveiling thus a subversive side to the status quo.
Religion Without Redemption advances the ideas of liberation theory
into the 21st century, and challenges the provincialism to which
many Latin American thinkers are usually consigned.
Latin America has been a place of radical political inspiration
providing an alternative to the neoliberal model. Religion without
Redemption looks at the sociology of religion, political philosophy
and the history of ideas of the continent, in an attempt to show
how Western understanding fails to come close to a correct analysis
of how and why political and economic characteristics work as they
do. It focuses on how the centrality of religion for the people of
Latin America has influenced how they interact with the changes in
the modern economic system. Capitalism has taken on religious
characteristics: it has sacred places of worship, such as the
shopping mall, as well as its own prophets. This book explains how
this form of 'cultural religion' accompanies many aspects of life
in a contradictory manner: not only does it fulfil the role of
legitimating oppression, it also can be a powerful source of
rebellion, unveiling thus a subversive side to the status quo.
Religion Without Redemption advances the ideas of liberation theory
into the 21st century, and challenges the provincialism to which
many Latin American thinkers are usually consigned.
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