Decolonial thinking and Europe: Decolonisation between particularity and universalism

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title Decolonial thinking and Europe: Decolonisation between particularity and universalism
 
Creator Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht
 
Subject Theology; Philosophy; Decolonial Thought Fanon; decolonialism; social death; Afropessimism; Europe; Human Rights; Ethics; Theology
Description Colonisation continues to have a tremendous impact on large parts of the globe and not only on previously colonised countries. Many of the current geopolitical, economic and environmental challenges that the globe faces cannot be thought of without taking decolonial thinking into consideration. In his Preface to Fanon’s book, The Wretched of the Earth, Jean-Paul Sartre argues that this book is not written for Europeans, yet he challenges Europeans to read it. It is between such particularism and universalism that this article will engage with decolonial thinking in the context of the globe’s various geopolitical, environmental and political challenges. Europe’s colonial claim to universalism cannot be separated from Christendom. In this article, this Christian colonial universalism will be brought into conversation with an attempt at a decolonial theology.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The article is an interdisciplinary conversation between philosophy and theology.
 
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Date 2024-05-31
 
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Identifier 10.4102/ve.v45i1.3123
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 45, No 1 (2024); 9 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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