RT Article
T1 Translating Buen Vivir: Latin American Indigenous Cultures, Stadial Development, and Comparative Religious Ethics
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 51
IS 2
SP 280
OP 320
A1 Lantigua, David M. 1981-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/185221838X
AB This article considers the methodological limits and possibilities of a cultural turn in comparative religious ethics by “translating” the Latin American Indigenous meanings of buen vivir (living well), a subsistent mode of interdependent flourishing resistant to Western models of extractive development amid the Anthropocene. It problematizes the methodological challenge of translating Indigenous cultures from within a Western colonial political economy that has historically relegated Indigenous Americans to the primitive level of savage inferiority according to a stadial theory of socioeconomic development. However, constructive methodological options for translating Indigenous cultures emerge from the Journal of Religious Ethics's existing conversations about comparative religious ethics. On the one hand, recent critical anthropology and ethnography, abetted by intellectual history, provide tools for ethicists in the recovery of Indigenous critiques and meanings against longstanding Western cultural patterns. On the other hand, nativizing the concept of the religious classic thematizes the normative dimensions of Indigenous cultures, demonstrating how the translation of buen vivir points to intercultural dialogue rather than cooptation and manipulation.
K1 Comparative Method
K1 Poverty
K1 Pachamama
K1 Amazon
K1 extractive development
K1 critical anthropology
K1 Colonial history
K1 Indigenous flourishing
DO 10.1111/jore.12427