Qu(e)er(y)ing Mary: Popular Mariology as Visual Liberation Theology

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.13169/decohori.2.0075
• Pages: 75-104
• Published date: 01 January 2016
• Date: 01 January 2016
• Author: Edwin Greenlee

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Resumen

Este artículo se centra en la mariología popular latinoamericana en su

expresión visual y analiza el conflicto entre discursos teológicos populares

y de elite que rodean a María en los siglos XX y XXI. Al seguir el

para digm a de Mic hel Fou cault sobr e conocimiento local versus

conocimiento erudito, este artículo postula la existencia de un conflicto

entre las expresiones visuales populares y eruditas de las teologías de

María en América Latina. Este conflicto revela el potencial que la

Mariología popular, combinada con las tradiciones de la diosa indígena y

creencias religiosas africanas importadas, ha ofrecido a aquellos que están

marginados socialmente, incluyendo los pobres, las mujeres y personas

queer.

Palabras claves: Mariología, América Latina, Teologías de la Liberación

Queer, Michel Foucault, Marcella Althaus-Reid.

Resumo

Este artigo examina a Mariologia popular latino-americana expressada

visualmente e discute o conflito entre discursos teológicos da elite e

populares que rodeia Maria nos séculos XX e XXI. Seguindo o paradigma

de Foucault de conhecimento locais versus conhecimento erudito, este

artigo pressupõe um conflito entre teologias populares e eruditas de

Maria promulgadas visualmente na América L atina. Este conflito revela o

potencial que a Mariologia popular, combinada com as tradições da deusa

indígena e crenças religiosas africanas importadas, ofereceu-se para

aqueles que são socialmente marginalizados, incluindo os pobres,

mulheres e indivíduos queer.

Palavras-chave: Mariologia, América Latina, Teologias da Libertação

Queer, Michel Foucault, Marcella Althaus-Reid.

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Qu(e)er(y)ing Mary

Popular Mariology as Visual

Liberation Theology

Edwin Greenlee

Graduate Theological Union

ISSN 2422-6343

horizontes!

decoloniales

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Año 2016

Edwin Greenlee ! Qu(e)er(y)ing Mary

Abstract

This article looks at popular L atin American Mariology expressed visually

and discusses the co nflict between popular and elite theol ogical

discourses surrounding Mary in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Following Michel Foucault’s paradigm of local versus erudite knowledge,

this article postulates a conflict between popular and erudite theologies

of Mary enacted visually in Latin America. This conflict reveals the

potential that popular Mariology, combined with indigenous goddess

traditions and imported African religious beliefs, has offered to those

who are socially marginalized, including the poor, women, and queer

individuals.

Keywords: Mariology, Latin America, Queer Liberation Theologies,

Michel Foucault, Marcella Althaus-Reid..

About Edwin Greenlee

Student in the Multi-Religious Studies Certificate program at Starr King

School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley,

California. He is also a D. Min. candidate at the New Seminary for

Interfaith Studies, in New York. Greenlee has a law degree from Temple

University and an academic background in social science. He is co-editor

with Rev. Nathan C. Walker of Whose God Rules? Is the United States a Secular

Nation or a Theolegal Democracy? (Palgrave McMillan, 2011). As a member

of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, he chairs a committee on

religion and sexuality.

Cita recomendada de este artículo!

Edwin Greenlee (2016). «Qu(e)er(y)ing Mary: Popular Mariology as

Visual Liberation Theology». Horizontes Decoloniales 2: pp. 75–104.

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