Imperialism of the Mind: Decolonial Theological Approaches to Traumatic Memory

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S. Edwards
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ABSTRACT Frantz Fanon’s call to clear the “rot” of mental imperialism takes on even greater importance in light of emerging neuroscientific research regarding intergenerational trauma. Read through a decolonial theological lens, epigenetic trauma reveals that basic assumptions regarding the independent human person occlude foundational truths. Individuals are fundamentally connected to others in a way that can create ground for a thicker description of “shared humanity” and for liberatory practices of memory. Political theology provides a necessary space to forge theoretical and practical connections between the personal and political natures of race, trauma, and god-talk that are essential to move toward justice. Exploring multiple aspects of being – biological, decolonial, theological, future – I suggest that building communities of Christian enfleshed counter-memory is one potential path toward decolonizing theology and addressing the wounds of colonization through social transformation.
心灵帝国主义:创伤记忆的非殖民化神学方法
弗朗茨·法农(Frantz Fanon)呼吁清除精神帝国主义的“腐朽”,鉴于新兴的关于代际创伤的神经科学研究,这一呼吁显得更加重要。从非殖民化的神学角度来看,表观遗传创伤揭示了关于独立人类的基本假设掩盖了基本真理。个体从根本上与他人联系在一起,这种联系可以为更厚的“共享人性”描述和记忆的解放实践创造基础。政治神学提供了一个必要的空间,在种族、创伤和上帝话语的个人和政治性质之间建立理论和实践的联系,这是走向正义所必需的。探索存在的多个方面——生物学的、非殖民化的、神学的、未来的——我建议建立一个充满基督教反记忆的社区,这是一条通往非殖民化神学和通过社会转型解决殖民化创伤的潜在途径。
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