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Modern secularism has not eliminated theology from public life, but rather reconfigured it through new forms of political and epistemic control.
With a particular focus on Latin America and its global resonances, this book offers a critical exploration of the entanglements between religion, politics, secularization, and power in contemporary societies. Nicolás Panotto uses the framework of “encryption” and “decryption” to analyze how categories such as religion, democracy, secularization, human rights, and development become mechanisms that conceal colonial and theological assumptions while presenting themselves as neutral and universal. Public discourse and political institutions thereby continue to reproduce exclusions, hierarchies, and forms of epistemic domination.
Panotto develops a public and political theology that challenges both conservative religious hegemonies and liberal secular orthodoxies. The book revisits Protestant theological traditions, explores debates around democracy, populism, spirituality, and human rights, and proposes a decolonial rethinking of the commons, public space, and collective life. Rather than offering a closed theological system, it invites readers to rethink theology as a critical and transformative practice capable of engaging the fractures of the contemporary world.
Bringing Latin American perspectives into global debates, this volume contributes to ongoing discussions in political theology, religious studies, decolonial thought, and critical theory, offering new conceptual tools for imagining alternative democratic and emancipatory futures.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I. POWER, RELIGION AND DECOLONIZATION OF THE SECULAR
Chapter 1. The Religious, the Public, and the Commons: some Analytical Traces
Chapter 2. Reimagining the utopic dimension of religion in the Anthropocene/Capitalocene era
Chapter 3. On Decolonizing Secularization
Chapter 4. Secularization, laicidad and the colonial heritage
PART II. TOWARDS A PROTESTANT POLITICAL THEOLOGY
Chapter 5. God and the public sphere: a protestant reinterpretation
Chapter 6. The political dimension of grace
Chapter 7. The “Protestant principle” of the Spirit
PART III. THEO-POLITICAL RUMINATIONS IN A “POST-SECULAR” ERA
Chapter 8. Crisis, uncertainty and democracy in Latin America today: some theological-political reflections
Chapter 9. Radical democracy and the polemical principle of theology
Chapter 10. The political dimension of spirituality and mysticism
Chapter 11. The Commons in Dispute: Theological Keys for a Critical Populism
Chapter 12. Decolonizing human rights: a theological approach
Chapter 13. Post-development, Difference and Socio-cultural Identities: A Theological Approach
Chapter 14. Otherness, paradox and utopia: Theological imagination and the deconstruction of power
Conclusions: A Manifesto Toward a Decrypting Political Theology
References
Index
Product details
| Published | 15 Apr 2027 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781978764125 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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