TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martínez Andrade,Luis
AU  - Báez,Antonio Carmona
AU  - Löwy,Michael
TI  - Religion without redemption: social contradictions and awakened dreams in Latin America 
T2  - Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
SN  - 9781783712939
AV  - BL48 .A537 2015eb
U1  - 200.9 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London [England]
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Bloch, Ernst,
KW  - Boff, Leonardo,
KW  - Boff, Leonardo
KW  - Prinzip Hoffnung (Bloch, Ernst)
KW  - fast
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Liberation theology
KW  - Religion
KW  - History
KW  - Sociologie religieuse
KW  - Amérique latine
KW  - Théologie de la libération
KW  - Histoire
KW  - religious history
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Economic assistance
KW  - Foreign countries
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - sociala aspekter
KW  - sao
KW  - Idéhistoria
KW  - Politisk filosofi
KW  - Dependency on foreign countries
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Dépendance à l'égard de l'étranger
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1. Entelechies and cathedrals. Civilising paradigms and colonial atavisms: power and social sciences -- The shopping mall as teh paradigmatic figure of neocolonial discourse: racism and power in Latin America -- Part 2. Utopia and liberation. The portentous eclosion of the principle of hope: Ernst Bloch and liberation -- The gun powder of the dwarf: unearthly reflections on contemporary political philosophy -- Tendencies and latencies of liberation theology in the twenty-first century
N2  - The world's eyes are on Latin America as a place of radical political inspiration and as an alternative to the neoliberal model. Each country in the region deals differently in its method of government, yet there are common cultural themes that tie the continent's trajectory together. 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. Luis Martínez Andrade 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, for example, has taken on religious characteristics: it has sacred places of worship (the shopping mall) as well as its own prophets. Martínez Andrade discusses 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. --Provided by publisher
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