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Using Latinx Theology’s Lo Cotidiano to Decolonialize Oller’s El Velorio

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dc.creatorVarela Rios, Héctor M.
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T09:43:57Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T09:43:57Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis article explores the theological valences of Francisco Oller y Cestero’s El Velorio (ca. 1893), his interpretation of the child’s funerary wake called bakiné in Puerto Rico, using the Latinx theological concept of lo cotidiano and its decolonializing force. In contrast to Oller’s elitist and colonialized view of bakiné as “brutish” and “superstition”, a decolonial cotidiano approach valorizes its nuanced expression of Puerto Rican popular religion, identity, and culture among everyday belief and practice. This approach construes bakiné as a celebration of life, orthodox in light of Catholic doctrine, and representative of the reality of many Puerto Ricans to this day, a life in which redemption triumphs over sin and creativity over chaos even when rife with suffering and oppression. Indeed, El Velorio evinces a popular hermeneutic, a quotidian relationality, and a creative faith that has larger theological implications about the complexities of being human, being religious-in-community, and being created, and about the relationship between theology, art, and human.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.7:2021.2.5
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19552
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/267
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20748
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
dc.subjectUsingen
dc.subjectLatinx Theologyen
dc.subjectLo Cotidianoen
dc.subjectDecolonializeen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.personOller El Velorio
dc.titleUsing Latinx Theology’s Lo Cotidiano to Decolonialize Oller’s El Velorioen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-23T12:00:34
local.source.epage106
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleMedia and Religion in (Post)Colonial Societies: Dynamics of Power and Resistance
local.source.spage87
local.source.volume7

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