Notes for a decolonial history of the Dominican Catholic Church

Notes for a decolonial history of the Dominican Catholic Church

Published : 2021-06-03

Section : Scientific articles

Abstract

In a previous work, the author had stated that the historiography of the Dominican Catholic Church has developed under four fundamental ideal types: traditional-tridentine, ecclesial-modern, critical-modern and postmodern. To complement that historiographical inquiry, this work sketches an alternative model of church history in dialogue with the decolonial turn of Latin American thought. Starting from the heuristic concept of intersectionality,  outlining the fundamental epistemological lines of the model he seeks: the questioning of the hegemonic practices of the Catholic Church as a vehicle for racialized Hispanicism by the Dominican Lettered City , critical interculturality, ecumenical recognition of plurality of Christian churches and the criticism of the hypersecularism implicit in the references to Latin American Christianity in the field of decolonial studies.

Dominican Catholic Church, Church history, Decolonial turn, CEHILA, Enrique Dussel

How to Cite

Mella SJ, P. (2021). Notes for a decolonial history of the Dominican Catholic Church: Notes for a decolonial history of the Dominican Catholic Church. Revista Estudios Sociales, 43(162), 167–180. Retrieved from https://estudiossociales.bono.edu.do/index.php/es/article/view/976