Abstract

Juan José Tamayo examines the processes of suppression of the religious pluriverse and its conversion into religious universes promotors of unique truths and only thoughts, accentuating the particular importance of Roman Catholicism and colonizing Christianity in this process and underling the decisive nature of the rescue of the silenced cultures in the struggle for shared emancipatory alternatives.

Bio note

Juan José Tamayo holds a degree in Theology at Pontificia Comillas University (1971) a PhD in Theology at the University of Salamanca (1976), a degree in Social Sciences by the Leon XIII Institute (1972) and a BA (1983) and PhD (1990) in Philosophy and Humanities by the Autonomous University of Madrid. Tamayo has lectured in several various institutions in Spain and America. He is a full professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid and currently heads the Ignacio Ellacuría Chair of Theology and Science of Religions, Carlos III University. Co-founder and current Secretary General of the John XXIII Progressive Theologians Association.

Activity within the project  ALICE – Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences and the Observatory on Religion in Public Space (POLICREDOS). and the Boaventura de Sousa Santos Chair in Social Sciences.