The Christian Left: From the Past toward a Possible Future

Author:

Medina Néstor1

Affiliation:

1. Néstor Medina is Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics and Culture at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto.

Abstract

A sociohistorical and theological retracing of some of the most important moments and aspects of the Christian left in Canada, recounting some of its major contributions and actors, and exploring some of the challenges this movement will face in the future. Adopting a decolonial approach, this article is divided into two sections. The first section examines some of the issues related to social reform that have characterized the Christian left, with particular attention to some of its key actors, socio-ethical and theological justice themes, and shifts over time. The second section pays closer attention to some of the social and theological challenges this diverse movement confronts as it attempts to account for Canada’s history of colonization and Christianity’s complicity with the colonial project. This article invites Christian leftists to engage in a process of social and theological decolonization where racialized and minoritized peoples are not seen as objects of good will, but as protagonists in the struggle for social justice and decolonization.

Publisher

University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)

Subject

Religious studies

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1. I highlight the governments of Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, Fernado Romeo Lucas García, and Efrain Rios Months, which brought about an era of violence and military repression, and which culminated in systematic incursions into Indigenous towns and mass killing of Indigenous peoples. See Virginia Garrard-Burnett, Terror in the Land of the Holy Spirit: Guatemala under General Efrain Rios Montt 1982–1983, Religion and Global Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011); Victor Perera, Unfinished Conquest: The Guatemalan Tragedy (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).

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4. Started in 1875 in Canada, this movement was active in the USA since the 1820s. See Nancy M. Sheehan, “Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in Canada,” in The Canadian Encyclopedia (2006), accessed July 15, 2021, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/womans-christian-temperance-union.

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