SUBJECTIVITIES SUBORDINATED BY THE COLONIALITY OF THE SACRED: CRITICAL AND PROPOSITIONAL COUNTERPARTS OF THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL FIELD OF RELIGION SCIENCE

Abstract

This article aims to contribute to the critical reflection on the arbitrariness of the processes of socio, political, economic, and cultural subjugation triggered by the imposition of the modern/colonial world system, introducing the problematization of the "coloniality of the sacred" in the discussion and proposing theoretical and methodological alternatives for the treatment and confrontation of such condition. It is based on the epistemological point of view of the science of religion, through which a bibliographic review was carried out in the studies of religion, with emphasis on the interpellations of the sacred category, resuming the trajectory of institutionalization of the discipline and emphasizing the feasibility of empirical research, considered capable of allocating attention to the interpretative peculiarities of mystical-religious experiences, as well as defending a commitment of the researcher to combat the fight against intolerance and the promotion of interreligious dialogue.