Decolonial and diaspora identity

mosaics for the construction of afrolatíndia Christian theologies and spiritualities

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to help the construction and consolidation of a theological thought that here will be called Afrolatíndia. With this, I refer to a theological and spiritual range that contemplates the Brazilian heritage as a place of passage. Brazil is a crossing point for the diaspora that spread the African people around the world, as a result of colonization and the enslavement process in the Americas. Brazil also has its place on the continent whose original peoples were practically devastated, with their culture, with their religiosity. To propose and think about afrolatíndia spiritualities, is to recover and open up to this theological (re) encounter that allow us to think how, at the same time, a theology and spiritualities, if full and marked by Brazilianness, necessarily need to consider how much we were and are marked for the African heritage, for the indigenous heritage, for this religiosity of the global south. That is why, in Brazil, Black Theology is Afrolatíndia Theology.