Indiscretions of a World Order

Christian Imaginations, A Racialized Europe, and a Religionized Latin America

Abstract

In this article, the author explores the contributions of Marianne Moyaert’s Christian Imaginations of the Religious
Other (2024) to the study of the entanglements between what she calls ›racialization‹ and ›religionization‹
in Europe and Latin America. He argues that Moyaert’s book is an invitation for geopolitical indiscretions,
putting into dialogue European Critical Race Studies and Latin American Decolonial theory, two scholarly
approaches that emerge from different and unequal, yet still deeply entangled, locations of thinking and praxis.
The author argues that putting both currents into dialogue will interrogate the tendency among scholars to
minimize the role of ›religionization‹ in the Americas and of ›racialization‹ in Europe, a practice that creates
problematic geopolitical silos and ultimately reifies rather than combats the structure. Instead, situating this
dialogue within a framework that has been conceptualized as ›coloniality at large‹ can reveal occluded histories
and mobilize fruitful memories, enabling the emergence of politically responsible solidarities.