Panel: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION TODAY: TOPICS - METHODS - APPROACHES



155.1 - PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION FROM INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES: PRELIMINARY HYPOTHESES

AUTHORS:
De Caprio D. (University of Strasbourg ~ Strasbourg ~ France)
Text:
Recent debates in global and reflexive philosophy of religion highlight the need to rethink the discipline beyond its Western-Christian foundations. Indigenous religions have often been presented as promising resources for this transformation, yet their philosophical relevance is usually approached either through descriptive, ethnographic accounts or through idealized notions of indigeneity. This paper proposes that indigenous Christianities offer a paradigmatic vantage point from which to approach this question. Positioned at the intersection of indigenous ontologies and Christian normative frameworks, these traditions reveal how epistemic, ritual, and political inequalities are negotiated, resisted, and creatively reshaped in colonial and postcolonial contexts. To illustrate these dynamics, the paper presents selected examples from Inuit, Warlpiri, and Khasi contexts.