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Please join our hosts Professor Philip P. Arnold and Sandy Bigtree as they talk with our guest , Professor David Carrasco about the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the Mesoamerican context. Prof. Carrasco is the _Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America, with a joint appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences_ at Harvard Divinity School and director of the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project (MMARP)]. His work highlights the history of religions and colonialism, conquest, and colonization.
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In this episode of the podcast Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape) emphasizes that what undergirds the Doctrine of Discovery is a Christian theological logic of domination and dehumanization. This theological rationale creates a system of domination. In order to understand this theory of domination and dehumanization Newcomb argues it is insufficient to look only at the law and theological dimensions we must also look at the rhetorical and cognitive dimensions of this system of domination.
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In this week's episode our hosts talk with Onondaga Nation General counsel Joe Heath. They discuss how The Doctrine of Discovery is an excuse for colonialism. It is European white Christian colonialism which has inflicted white Christian supremacy all over the globe . Some key topics for the episode are: plenary power, Sullivan Clinton, Erie Canal, landback and more. For a transcript and show notes visit: https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/
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To begin mapping The Doctrine of Discovery our hosts start by discussing the iconic, Christopher Columbus. A man who literally embodies the Doctrine of Discovery. His voyage was funded by the Roman Catholic Church and the Crowns of Europe. A series of papal bulls provided the theological and legal justifications for the European settler-colonizers to feel comfortable participating in Enslavement, Exploitation, and Extraction (Steven T. Newcomb’s Pagans in the Promised Land helps to explain this helpful summary of the Papal Bulls).
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