Nicolas Panotto – författare

Advancing a democratization of secularization theory from a distinctly Latin American standpoint, this book challenges the theory’s modern-centric and colonial underpinnings.Contemporary socio-political debates increasingly revisit the concept of secularization, yet not uniformly across disciplines or public arenas. The shifting visibility and agency of religion in modern contexts challenge the classical secularization thesis, whose early-twentieth-century formulations predicted a steady decline or confinement of religion within modernity. Contrary to these expectations, religious expressions have not only persisted but diversified, expanding their modes of influence within public and political spaces.The theory of the encryption of power offers a critical framework for interpreting these dynamics by complicating traditional definitions of both power and the religious. Religion functions not merely as a legitimizing resource for dominant political narratives but also as a generator of differentiation, tension, and counter-hegemonic practices. It can simultaneously uphold, contest, and reconfigure colonial and decolonial projects, aligning this approach with post- and de-colonial critiques that view secularization itself as entangled with the coloniality of power, knowledge, and being.This book brings together theoretical essays and case studies centered on Latin America, offering diverse contributions to the understanding of these contemporary dynamics. Edited by Nicolás Panotto, the collection interrogates the ways in which secularization has historically operated as a mechanism of colonial othering, shaping and marginalizing religious, racial, political, and cultural minorities.

Fe que se hace Pública: Reflexiones sobre Religión, Cultura, Sociedad e Incidencia es el resultado de un muy variado conjunto de reflexiones sobre experiencias que intentan cruzar –con las tensiones inherentes que conlleva- las dimensiones de la fe, el activismo político y el compromiso por el bien común desde una mirada democrática y los derechos humanos."Este libro contiene una gama impresionante de breves pero pertinentes y agudos ensayos sobre múltiples debates latinoamericanos que atañen a la religiosidad, la cultura y la política. Controversias que han sacudido a Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Bolivia, Costa Rica, México, Colombia son analizadas por Panotto en una conjunción poco usual de concisión y profundidad teórica y teológica." Del prefacio por Luis N. Rivera Pagán.

Advancing a democratization of secularization theory from a distinctly Latin American standpoint, this book challenges the theory's modern-centric and colonial underpinnings. Contemporary socio-political debates increasingly revisit the concept of secularization, yet not uniformly across disciplines or public arenas. The shifting visibility and agency of religion in modern contexts challenge the classical secularization thesis, whose early-twentieth-century formulations predicted a steady decline or confinement of religion within modernity. Contrary to these expectations, religious expressions have not only persisted but diversified, expanding their modes of influence within public and political spaces. The theory of the encryption of power offers a critical framework for interpreting these dynamics by complicating traditional definitions of both power and the religious. Religion functions not merely as a legitimizing resource for dominant political narratives but also as a generator of differentiation, tension, and counter-hegemonic practices. It can simultaneously uphold, contest, and reconfigure colonial and decolonial projects, aligning this approach with post- and de-colonial critiques that view secularization itself as entangled with the coloniality of power, knowledge, and being. This book brings together theoretical essays and case studies centered on Latin America, offering diverse contributions to the understanding of these contemporary dynamics. Edited by Nicolas Panotto, the collection interrogates the ways in which secularization has historically operated as a mechanism of colonial othering, shaping and marginalizing religious, racial, political, and cultural minorities.

The publication of this volume marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the Postcolonialism and Religions series. In intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives, the chapters of this book constitute a complex whole: a volume that does justice to the justice-seeking origins of Latin American Liberation Theology, philosophy, and sociology as it emerged in the 1960s-70s and its development to the present. What drives this book is a common spirit and conviction: Liberation Theologies of the Global South remain relevant to the sociocultural and geopolitical contexts of today, which remain ensconced in the dynamics, exclusions, and resistances that gave rise to Liberation Theologies six decades ago. Today we may speak of interculturality, of borderlands, of in-betweenness, in ways that complicate, confirm, affirm, and interrogate the “underside of history”, and the spaces that are marginalized but de-centered centers of liberation struggle — within, alongside, underneath, over-against societal projects that claim and exclude them, and that represent some of the actual challenges and opportunities to liberation.

The publication of this volume marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the Postcolonialism and Religions series. In intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives, the chapters of this book constitute a complex whole: a volume that does justice to the justice-seeking origins of Latin American Liberation Theology, philosophy, and sociology as it emerged in the 1960s-70s and its development to the present. What drives this book is a common spirit and conviction: Liberation Theologies of the Global South remain relevant to the sociocultural and geopolitical contexts of today, which remain ensconced in the dynamics, exclusions, and resistances that gave rise to Liberation Theologies six decades ago. Today we may speak of interculturality, of borderlands, of in-betweenness, in ways that complicate, confirm, affirm, and interrogate the “underside of history”, and the spaces that are marginalized but de-centered centers of liberation struggle — within, alongside, underneath, over-against societal projects that claim and exclude them, and that represent some of the actual challenges and opportunities to liberation.

The publication of this volume marks the Ten Year Anniversary of the Postcolonialism and Religions series. In intersectional and interdisciplinary perspectives, the chapters of this book constitute a complex whole: a volume that does justice to the justice-seeking origins of Latin American Liberation Theology, philosophy, and sociology as it emerged in the 1960s-70s and its development to the present. What drives this book is a common spirit and conviction: Liberation Theologies of the Global South remain relevant to the sociocultural and geopolitical contexts of today, which remain ensconced in the dynamics, exclusions, and resistances that gave rise to Liberation Theologies six decades ago. Today we may speak of interculturality, of borderlands, of in-betweenness, in ways that complicate, confirm, affirm, and interrogate the “underside of history”, and the spaces that are marginalized but de-centered centers of liberation struggle — within, alongside, underneath, over-against societal projects that claim and exclude them, and that represent some of the actual challenges and opportunities to liberation.

"La corrupción ronda hoy con mucha fuerza en los laberintos de la sociedad latinoamericana y constituye una seria amenaza para el desarrollo sostenible, la ética, el buen gobierno y el imperio de la justicia. La gravedad del problema es tal que distorsiona y erosiona la eficiencia y el principio de equidad en la asignación de recursos en el gasto público, revela una profunda crisis de valores, justifica la tolerancia de los actos corruptos, promueve la escasa o nula rendición de cuentas y genera una administración de justicia reñida con la verdad, la dignidad humana y el bien común.¿Cómo se entiende la corrupción en su dimensión ética en los diferentes aspectos de la vida social y cómo sus consecuencias afectan la dignidad delas personas?¿Qué factores facilitan la "normalización" o "naturalización" de las dinámicas corruptas?¿Qué relación hay entre el ejercicio del poder y la corrupción? ¿Por qué es un tema poco abordado en nuestras iglesias?¿Cómo se explican los discursos teológicos y prácticas que justifican dinámicas corruptas tanto en las iglesias como en la cotidianidad de la vida de los creyentes?¿Qué responsabilidad tienen las iglesias cristianas frente a la amenaza de la corrupción? ¿Cuál es su rol profético?Estas y otras preguntas fueron abordadas en la Consulta "La corrupción mata: perspectivas bíblicas, contextuales y éticas", llevada a cabo por la FTL en Lima. Las ponencias presentadas en ella han sido reunidas en este libro, con el fin de contribuir a la reflexión crítica, desde la perspectiva de la fe cristiana, sobre la problemática de la corrupción en América Latina. El lector encontrará, en sus páginas, una introducción al tema en el marco de los contextos históricos y sociales; análisis exegéticos que muestran la crítica profética de la corrupción, el pensamiento del Nuevo Testamento sobre las relaciones entre la iglesia y los líderes políticos, un estudio del significado de la equidad en las relaciones humanas de justicia; hay también estudios que muestran la presencia de la corrupción en los espacios públicos y los que tienen por objeto mostrar experiencias de resistencia e incidencia pública desarrolladas por organizaciones cristianas que trabajan en favor de la justicia."