Repudiations
Repuidations of the Doctrine of Discovery by religious organizations and faith communities
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Part 4: Making Common Cause: Imagining Shared Futures
Creating spaces like that of the AMC AfroFeministFutures panel will allow Black feminists to reflect on the legacy of Black feminism, and what futures can lo...
Part 3: Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Foreground an Analysis of Settler Colonialism
The Doctrine of Discovery (DoD, sometimes called the Doctrine of Christian Domination) is considered a major root of settler colonialism globally. The DoD is...
“Revoke the Papal Bulls”: Our Response to the Vatican’s March 30 Statement on the Doctrine of Discovery Permalink
Let us set the context for this discussion. The context begins with the free existence of our Native nations and peoples, extending back to the beginnin...
CRFP: Indigenous Peoples express hope and concern at Vatican’s repudiation of Doctrine of Discovery Permalink
Philip P Arnold, a professor of religious studies at Syracuse University and the founding director of Skä·noñh — Great Law of Peace Center, was interviewed o...
Part 2: The beginning of an Analysis of Settler Colonialism Emerges at AMC 2022
Indigenous women from around Africa arrived to traditionally Native land bases that were often in turmoil. If the Indigenous nations of the place were able t...
Undoing the Christian nationalism of the Doctrine of Discovery Permalink
The repudiation, which came in a statement from a bureaucratic office, not Pope Francis himself, said the doctrine had been “manipulated” by colonizers “to j...
Part 1: The Origins of the Combahee River Collective Statement
50 miles from Charleston, South Carolina, is the mouth of the Combahee River, named for the Indigenous people of the place. It was home to numerous plantatio...
Indigenous Peoples And Religious Modes Of Othering A Comparative History Of Religions Perspective Two Workshops 24 And 30/31 May 2023
Offical Program Download PDF Introduction Two workshops 24 and 30/31 May 2023 A joint initiative by: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious...
The Myth of Divine Right and the Doctrine of Discovery
Conventional wisdom holds that the Doctrine of Discovery originated with a series of papal bulls issued by several 15th-Century popes. But it is unlikely tha...
The Regalian Doctrine: The Philippine Case
Introduction The Philippines has over 14-17 million remaining Indigenous peoples belonging to an estimated 110 ethnolinguistic communities (between 10-20% o...
Continuación de la dominación de la Cristiandad: una respuesta a la declaración de repudio del Vaticano a la Doctrina del Descubrimiento - Español
por Betty Lyons, Sandra Bigtree y Philip Arnold English Español Cuando el Vaticano finalmente se dé cuenta de que está sumido en el lodo genocida de siglo...
Johnson v. M’Intosh and the Missing Cover of the Jigsaw Puzzle Permalink
Given that this interpretive work involves words and ideas, and not physical puzzle pieces, we as Native scholars face an interesting challenge: How do we...
Save the Date: Christian Domination & The Genocide of Turtle Island
Please join us for panel discussion with Philip P. Arnold, Tupac Enrique Acosta, Sandy Bigtree, Joe Heath, Betty Lyons, Tina Ngata. Details Christian Dom...
Johnson v. M’Intosh, Wi Parata v. Bishop of Wellington, and the Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery in Aotearoa-New Zealand Permalink
The presentation of the settlements process as a means for settling the grievances caused by violations of Te Tiriti o Waitangi has more problematic reper...
Christian Control Of Women And Mother Earth: The Doctrine Of Discovery And The Doctrine Of Male Domination
How did the world come to be? How did humans come to be? What is the origin of all living beings? The myth-history of who we are begins with the creation sto...