Coloniality and the rise of liberation thinking during the sixteenth century / Thomas Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Thomas, 1953- author.

Series:

Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and South America, 700-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberation theology--History--16th century.

Liberation theology.

Humanism--History--16th century.

Humanism.

Imperialism--History--16th century.

Imperialism.

America--Colonization--History.

America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2021.

Summary:

Explores the famous works of Thomas More, Erasmus, Las Casas, and Guaman Poma de Ayala as they develop what is described here as sixteenth-century liberation thinking in context of the Americas.

Contents:

The Emergence of Liberation Thinking despite the Coloniality of Power

Toward a Sui Generis Andean Priesthood

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

INDEX

Chapter 5. LIBERATION THINKING: THE AMERICAS (ABYA YALA)

Bartolom©e de las Casas: Toward a Decolonial Theory of Liberation

On Evangelization: Form, Content, and Language

Motolin©ia vs. Las Casas

An Early Modern Liberation Thinker

Theologizing Liberation Decolonially

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Decolonial Reasoning

An Andean, an Englishman, and a Spaniard, and the Question of Sources

Catholicism Predating itself in Peru as Autochthonous Liberation Thinking

Liberation Thinking: Jesus's Poor and an Ethnic Theory of Sovereignty

Beyond Aristotle: Renaissance Liberation Thinking, a New Awareness

Chapter 4. LIBERATION THINKING: EUROPE

Liberation Thinking as Decolonial Thought

Combatting the Wickedness Within, and Without

Thomas More, Sir, Saint, Liberation Thinker

Gold and Free Will

On Liberation from Private Property

Discernment on the Material and the Development of the Conscience

Erasmus of Rotterdam and the Life of the Spirit

Division of Power: Popes, Priests, Princes, and Men

Primitive Christianity and the War within the Mind

Against Materialism, Advocating Nonviolence

Chattel Slavery's Philosophical Underpinnings

Columbus: One Small Step beyond Aristotle

Chapter 2. THE ELUSIVE DIVISION-OF-POWER IDEAL

Hern©an Cort©es: Using Spiritual Power to Temporal Advantage

The Encomienda, the Church, and the Fusion of Temporal and Spiritual Power

Royal Patronage and Fusion of Power

On the Temporality of Ecclesiastical Authorities

Chapter 3. DISMANTLING THE "NATURAL" THEORY OF SLAVERY

Thomas More, Ethics, and the New World

Las Casas, the Cry against Slavery, and the Birth of Indigenismo

Erasmus' Condemnation of Greed

Front Cover

Half-title

Series information

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Epigraphy

Table of contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION

The Colonial Force, Coloniality, and Liberation from Them

Coloniality: Psychosis and Implicit Bias

Genesis and Organization of this Book

Chapter 1. EVERYDAY COLONIALITY AND EARLY SOCIAL SLAVERY THEORY

Coloniality of Structure and Coloniality of Mind

Nahua Slavery, Spanish Slavery, and Spanish Appropriation of Nahua Slavery

The Encomienda and the Imposition of Debt Peonage

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 6, 2026).

ISBN:

1-64189-410-5

OCLC:

1228505008