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Catholic Social Teaching: Toward a Decolonial Praxis.
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Journal of Moral Theology . 2024 Special issue, Vol. 13, p194-219. 26p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- The claims to universality in the thought of Jacques Maritain and Catholic social teaching present a problem: they tend not to perceive their own entanglement in modernity and its hidden underside of colonial oppression. First, I explore this problem by drawing upon the scholarship of Catholic social ethicist Mary E. Hobgood to underscore the internal contradictions between three different social models in Catholic social teaching: feudal organic, liberal orthodox, and radical liberationist. I situate Maritain's work within these social models. Second, I utilize Sylvia Wynter's appropriation of Frantz Fanon's sociogenetic approach as a way of understanding how people and institutions are malformed by dominant modern epistemologies. I argue that the Roman Catholic Church lacks a coherent and credible praxis of transformation. Finally, I suggest three starting points to initiate shifts toward a decolonial ethic of Catholic social teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CATHOLIC Christian sociology
*PRAXIS (Process)
*DECOLONIZATION
*CATHOLICS
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 21662851
- Volume :
- 13
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Moral Theology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176980670