Spiritual Memory, Spatial Affects and Churchstateness in a Popular Uprising in Afro Colombia’s Pacific Littoral

Bibliographic Data

ID7095040
AuthorsCarlos Manrique (0000-0002-2807-068X, Universidad de los Andes, corresponding author), Carlos A Manrique (Universidad de los Andes)
Year2024
Volume25
Issue3
Pages258-277
Publication date2024-03-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Theology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1462317x.2024.2308395
OpenAlexW4392877171
LanguageEN
References cited16

This article analyzes the leadership of the local Catholic Church in a forceful social movement of resistance against long-dated marginalization, inequality, and multi-faceted forms of violence in the main city-port in Colombia's pacific littoral: Buenaventura's Civic Strike process. Based on interviews conducted with religious and lay participants, it explores how spiritual memory, social space, and collective affects act as the enabling condition for this leadership, a condition that the interviewees characterize as a relation of trust between people and Church. The paper argues that this affect of trust implies complex intersections between social protest, Church and State that require, in turn, a different conceptualization of the social space. One that challenges secularism as an epistemology of the social by overcoming its distinctive clear-cut divisions between Church and State, and between State and civil society. The notion of "churchstateness," proposed in recent literature, is hence tested as an alternative analytic

Art · Environmental ethics · Ethnology · Littoral zone · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Philosophy · Religious studies · Geology · Oceanography