Spirituality and Colonial Governmentality

The Jesuit Spiritual Exercises in Europe and Abroad

Bibliographic Data

ID20061570
AuthorsJ Michelle Molina (Institute of Religious Studies, corresponding author)
Year2003
Pages133-152
Publication date2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenuePostcolonial Moves (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781403980236_7
OpenAlexW2473218061
ISBN9781403980236
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited23

At the close of the nineteenth century, W. E. B. DuBois put the world on notice that "the color line" would be the defining issue of the twentieth century.3 It may not be too early to prophecy that issues of "religion" and "faith" will be critical issues for the twenty-first century. In his proposal for new approaches to studies of the colonial past, David Scott argues that if our task at present is to understand "the conceptual and institutional dimensions of our modernity" then we ought also to bear in mind "a fundamental crisis in the Third World in which the very coherence of the secular-modern project ... can no longer be taken for granted"4 How does this affect our view of colonialism? What shape should colonial studies take in order to understand the history of our present? The crisis of secularism provides both the urgency and the conceptual space for studies that push the limits of current postcolonial criticism that has been stopped dead in its tracks at the specter of questions of religion and faith.KeywordsEarly Modern PeriodSpanish ColonizerPostcolonial TheoryColonial StudyPartido Revolucionario InstitucionalThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Aesthetics · Colonialism · Criticism · Epistemology · Faith · Governmentality · Legitimacy · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Secularism · Secularization · Sociology · Spirituality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development

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