Christianity in history: Postcolonial perspective

Historians have successfully pointed to new ways of re-writing Christianity’s history.

Caminho marítimo : o elemento oriental na cosmologia d'Os Lusíadas

Pretendemos com este estudo revelar a presença do Oriente na cultura portuguesa e promover a relação entre estas duas culturas, partindo da hipótese de que Os Lusíadas de Luís de Camões apresentam uma concepção do Universo resultante da compreensão comparada dos mitos gregos e hindus. Primeiramente, iremos colocar em evidência, através da noção de heroísmo, a importância do papel de Diónisos e do culto do Drama, por um lado, e de Zeus e do culto dos Jogos atléticos por outro, na espiritualidade do Ocidente; de seguida, faremos o estudo propriamente dito do enredo mitológico da epopeia camoniana, aspecto da obra que consideramos fundamental para a sua compreensão e em que nos parece encontrar-se a influência do elemento oriental.

Rethinking Polycentric Structures in the Postcolonial Church: Dangers of “Drone Missiology” or Afghanization of Christianity

In this brief essay I shall obviously draw from my reflections which I shared over the past three decades and to which I have provided some bibliographical references. It is clear from them that I had several opportunities to share my views beyond the Anglo-Saxon world, and some of them in events organized by K. Koschorke himself in the German academic circles as Munich-Freising Conferences. It is important that we do not get misled by words. We also need clarity of the concepts involved. Koschorke’s emphasis on “ploycentric structures” requires to be discussed and analysed critically to sort out its geographic components and its political-cultural implications, in order to be clear where lie the priorities. Without such exercise we will run the risk of hiding behind the ambiguity of words and concepts. My gut feelings make me believe that “polycentric structures” is just what the West needs in the postcolonial era to replace the control it has lost with decolonization.