Contributions to intersectional approaches in the Common Home

• Autor(a) principal: Toldy, Teresa Martinho
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/ephata.2022.11385

This text aims to emphasize the relevance of the concept of intersectionality to the discursive construction of the “Common Home” mentioned by Pope Francis. This wish implies the challenge to build contextual theologies in which multiple voices, in particular, women’s voices are present. The text assumes the need of an attitude that is both humble and willing to hear in face of the various forms of suffering, of exclusion and of invisibility of those that Pope Francis mentions as the “disposable”. The text draws attention to what seems to be a lack of knowledge of feminist theologies, even when women are mentioned, and refers some key points of the emergence of those theologies in the Catholic Church in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council. The issue of the «blind spots» in the Common Home, especially in Portuguese theologies is also mentioned, as well as the need to accept the challenge of intersectionality. This approach allows room for crossing theological issues with realities, situations and problems that require a complex, contextual and critical approach. The first step in that direction requires a self-analysis of theology. The text considers that the intersectional path is able to develop a cautious discourse in times and places where both religion and the “gender” problematic become an instrument of political manipulation.