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Siwô. Revista de Teología es una publicación semestral con artículos originales e inéditos que discuten temas de realidad social, a partir de problemáticas costarricenses y latinoamericanas. Los artículos son evaluados por un sistema de arbitraje de pares externos a los comités. La revista también fomenta el diálogo entre diversas disciplinas y estudia las relaciones entre teología, sociología, literatura, ciencias naturales, ecología, cultura de paz, diversidad sexual, étnica, entre otras discusiones de actualidad.
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The Globethics library contains articles of Siwô as of no. 1(2008) to current.
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Biolearning Project: from and in the spiral of lifeThe following article shares the experience of the Biolearning project - learning from life, a training process of an inter-institutional initiative between the Ecumenical School of Religious Sciences of National University and the National Children’s Board (PANI), Costa Rica. Concepts such as self-care, collective care and revitalization are woven around this process. The main lines of the experience that will be shared, recover the learning obtained in these years (2015-2022). Finally, we want to record the challenges that are glimpsed in the future.
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Isidore the Laborer: Costa Rican Religious Cultural HeritageThis research identifies Costa Rican Religious Cultural Heritage around Isidore the Laborer cult in 2 ways. First, it analyzes churches declared as the nation’s cultural architecture heritage, with Saint Isidore title. Second, it studies Saint Isidore sculptures in 75 catholic churches chosen by 3 criteria: 1. catholic churches with Saint Isidore title; 2. catholic churches located in communities, where people prepare anual parades every May in honor of Laborer Saint; 3. catholic churches declared as cultural architecture heritage by the Law 7555 of the Republic of Costa Rica.
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ESPIRITUALIDADES E INCIDENCIA SOCIAL: REFLEXIONES, HERIDAS, CLAMORES Y PRÁCTICAS CREATIVASEste volumen de la revista Siwô’, n.° 16.1, 2023, presenta aportes que se generan a partir de una reflexión-evaluación crítica acerca de 4 proyectos de extensión e investigación de la Escuela Ecuménica de Ciencias de la Religión (EECR), de la Universidad Nacional. Tales acciones pueden entenderse como prácticas creativas que se nutren de una escucha atenta de los sectores y poblaciones más vulnerabilizados de la sociedad costarricense, y que expresan el deseo de “contribuir a la dignificación del ser humano y la naturaleza, a la equidad de género, a la promoción de relaciones de paz, solidaridad y justicia fundamentadas en la dimensión espiritual del ser humano, a la promoción de la vida”.1 Con esto, este volumen evidencia la pertinencia de la acción sustantiva que viene realizando esta unidad académica.
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Religious dicourses justifying gender violence in a group of women from Upala: sacrifice, guilt and spiritualitiesThis work investigates the violence suffered by five women from Upala, located in Costa Rica. It analyzes aspects of violence that they are living from spaces such as culture, the family and religious institutions. For this reason, notions that are deci- sive in the legitimization of this violence are examined, such as sacrifice, guilt, their liberator spiritualities and the vision of God as who solves problems. According to this, information recollection tools were used to qualitative investigation such as semi-structured interviews. In this way, it is evident how cultural violence is legitimized through imaginaries and religious discourses that come to have an impact on the lives of these women by justifying many of the situations of violence they live and contribute to the construction of subjectivities rooted to passivity, obedience, sacrifice and dedication. In addition, it shows how analyzing oppressive religious discourses can be favorable to the position that women have in situations of violence that are based on a religious language immersed in the cultural. In such manner, the text allows to know from the life stories of these five women who are part of a female group that has been victim of violence, the impact of a society that maintains structures that violate women and that are sustained through religious imperatives.
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VIVIR CON DIGNIDAD EL PROCESO DE LA MUERTE: UNA MIRADA DESDE EL BIODERECHOEl presente artículo pretende compartir algunos aspectos sobre el aporte del bioderecho con respecto al derecho humano de morir dignamente. Busca abrir un espacio de reflexión, el cual permita percibir el desafío que implica regular la acción humana en la búsqueda de un campo común, para dilucidar el quehacer ante las situaciones del final de la vida. La contribución del bioderecho en este accionar es fundamental, ya que, como rama del derecho, representa una forma de comprender y resolver los conflictos planteados por la era moderna sobre el derecho que tiene todo ser humano a morir dignamente. En primera instancia, texto intenta explicar el origen y significado de algunos términos relacionados con la temática y luego analiza componentes relacionados con los efectos normativos de alcance legal y vinculante al derecho que tiene toda persona de tener una muerte digna. En su desenvolvimiento, se destacan elementos como el valor intrínseco de la vida, la compañía, la soledad, la compasión; sobre cómo conservar la dignidad humana hasta la muerte, el fundamento legal existente que regula el accionar en el proceso del bien morir, los principios de autonomía, justicia, beneficencia y no beneficencia en este proceso hacia el final de la vida. El tema por desarrollar no se centra en la eutanasia, más bien, busca reflexionar sobre qué hacer, cómo dilucidar y regular las situaciones ocurridas al final de la vida, de tal manera que posibiliten a todos y todas morir dignamente.
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Bioethical implications for sustainable rural developmentConsidering the advances and technologies of conventional food production and the relationships already evidenced with devastating consequences for human health and the environment, this article brings discussions, through a bibliographic review, on the interdisciplinary genesis of bioethics and the discourse of authors of global environmental bioethics and sustainability: Van Renssealer Potter, Raquel Carson, Lutzemberg, Moltmann, Leonardo Boff and Jaime Breilh. The knowledge of bioethics within sustainable rural development, mainly related to the issue of pesticides is necessary when thinking about interdisciplinary environmental and health education. In addition to anato-physiological capacities, the human being is also a social y cultural being, with values and, equally, an environmental being, where the environment and the activities that exercises are totally connected to his health and quality of life.
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LIVE WITH DIGNITY THE PROCESS OF DEATH: A VIEW FROM THE BIORIGHTThis article aims to share some aspects of the contribution of biolaw with respect to the human right to die with dignity. It seeks to open a space for reflection that allows us to perceive the challenge involved in regulating human action in the search for a common field, to elucidate the task in situations at the end of life. The contribution of biolaw in this action is fundamental, since, as a branch of law, it represents a way of understanding and resolving the conflicts posed by the modern era on the right to die with dignity. At first, this article tries to explain the origin and meaning of some terms related to the subject and then analyzes aspects related to the normative effects of legal and binding scope, to the right that every human being has, to have a dignified death. In its development, elements such as the intrinsic value of life, companionship, solitude, compassion, on how to preserve human dignity until death, on the existing legal basis that regulates action in the process of good death, on the principle of autonomy, justice, beneficence and non-beneficence stand out, in this process towards the end of life. The theme to be developed does not focus on euthanasia, rather, it seeks to reflect on what to do, how to elucidate and regulate the situations that occur at the end of life in such a way that they allow everyone to die with dignity.
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Resistance and learning: the spiritualities that animate themResistances, educations and spiritualities are intertwined and mutually reinforced in the experience of social movements in Central America. This work gathers the les- sons learned from conversations carried out during the year 2022 with 12 resistance groups in different regions of Costa Rica. It is an initiative that is part of the project Educations, spiritualities and resistances: liberating pedagogical and socio-religious experiences for children and adolescents, attached to the Escuela Ecuménicade Ciencias de la Religión (National University, Costa Rica). The main objective is to identify the spiritualities that nurture resistances and educational practices.
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CRISTIANISMOS E IGLESIAS: UNA HISTORIA DE DESAFÍOS Y DIVERSIDADESEl texto presenta los cristianismos como un amplio conjunto de diversas tradiciones o movimientos eclesiales que se han construido y que, todavía se construyen a lo largo de su complejo devenir histórico mundial de más de veinte siglos. Hablando en plural, el autor argumenta que en la realidad histórica y social existen cristianismos no solamente diversos, sino también contrapuestos, desarrollados en muy diferentes contextos culturales y eclesiales. De esta forma, también las iglesias deben ser consideradas en sus diversidades, para reconocer y respetar la rica pluralidad manifestada en polimorfas estructuras institucionales, celebraciones litúrgicas y expresiones confesionales y magisterios.
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Santa Sara’s Day: Image and spiritual and ethno political representation of the Brazilian GypsyUsing a more fluid approach to Portelli (1988) Italian oral history, I focus on the testimony of Roms leaders Mirian Stanescon (2007) and Mio Vacite (2008) to better understand the emergence and rise of Santa Sara Kali in the cultural, spiritual and ethnopolitical panorama in contemporary Brazil. By revealing Santa Sara’s influence on the construction of ethnic policies in Brasília, Mirian offers rich reflections on the possible links between religiosity and power, while Mio Vacite makes us reflect on the potential charismatic construction of a European gypsy saint in contemporary Brazil, and of the possible and necessary negotiations and transformations of Brazilian hybrid ciganidade.
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Travels, exoduses and collisions: reviving convictions in a violent global world. Contributions from an intercultural/decolonial ethicThe article proposes to relocate the plural convictions of the cultures and Peoples of the Earth in the framework of a normative discussion linked to the planetary environmental crisis. In the systematic violence, displacement and exodus of human communities and endless destructive processes that the dynamics of Capital continue to carry out, a dialogue of axiologies is needed to advance in an intercultural/decolonial deontological ethics. From this intercultural/decolonial turn that defines part of current critical thinking, the serious environmental problems that affect the collision of convictions in interethnic territories and peripheral societies are analyzed, which means linking convictions with norms. For this reason, the idea of what the indigenous peoples carry out is defended, as they teach us other sapiential and material forms of Life, defining ethically, politically and legally the relationships with all living beings: human and non-human.
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Flow, wound, cry. Reply to Monstruosa tierra. Una lectura de Leviathan by Jonathan PimentelThis paper proposes a review of Monstruosa tierra. Una lectura de Leviathan by the Costa Rican theologian Jonathan Pimentel Chacón. The main goal of this document is to show how some central categories and problems of Monstruosa tierra, particularly its notion of flesh, are related to a broader threshold within the inquiry of its author. From this perspective, the exercise suggests an understanding of the development of some primary ideas throughout Pimentel Chacón’s work, its variation during different periods and integration within the recent research conflicts of its author. At the end of this text, it is discussed the methodological precautions motivated by Monstruosa tierra regarding the reception of principal references within the traditions of political and economic thought.
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ESPIRITUALIDADES ANDINAS RELACIONALESEl texto-textil presenta la interrelación de las sabidurías y espiritualidades ancestrales andinas, que se entrelazan entre sí, formando un tejido vivo de vínculos recíprocos que restablecen el equilibrio y la armonía, a partir de las relaciones de mutualidad y correspondencia, que posibilitam la reconstitución e interacción de la Comunidad de la Vida, el Ayllu, en la que conviven diversos seres, desde la que el jaq’e, la persona, en vínculo con su ancestralidad, sostiene sus resistencias y re-existencias a partir de la crianza del Buen Vivir.
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MIRAR CON OTROS OJOS: DES-ANDANDO EL DISCURSO DOMINANTE PARA SALIR DEL CLOSETEste artículo presenta la experiencia teológica y pastoral de la Iglesia Colombiana Metodista, Príncipe de Paz, de la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia. Describe el diálogo entre los teóricos y los resultados que surgen de los testimonios narrados por miembros de la comunidad. El diálogo evidencia los obstáculos que encuentra la comunidad LGTBIQ + en las iglesias. Dichos resultados muestran las estrategias pastorales de carácter inclusivo que, aunque no están sistematizadas, están visibilizadas a través de las experiencias narradas por sus miembros, así como la implementación de hermenéuticas liberadoras y la necesidad de avanzar hacia mediaciones pedagógicas transformadoras que consoliden estos procesos de pastoral inclusiva.
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ESPIRITUALIDAD IFÁ-ORISHA AFROCARIBEÑA YORUBA/LUKUMÍ: EDUCACIÓN INTERRELIGIOSA INTERCULTURAL CRÍTICA, DESCOLONIALIDAD Y SALUD BIOPSICOSOCIALEste artículo asume el planteamiento de la perspectiva histórico-cultural que reconoce la crítica al papel que juegan los valores ideológicos en los procesos educativos y pedagógicos en general, y en la educación religiosa en particular. Desde la educación interreligiosa-intercultural crítica y descolonial se describe analíticamente el trasfondo histórico y la fenomenología de la espiritualidad afrocaribeña Ifá-Orisha / Yoruba-Lukumí. Esta espiritualidad es una alternativa complementaria al paradigma positivista, eurocéntrico y biomédico de la salud. Finalmente, se concluye con un epílogo donde se presenta un estudio de caso que describe un libro de educación religiosa que parte de la perspectiva asumida.
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LOOKING WITH DIFFERENT EYES: UN-WALKING THE DOMINANT DISCOURSE TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSEThis article presents the pastoral experience of the Colombian Methodist Church, Príncipe de Paz (Prince of Peace), in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. It aims to explore their biblical/theological and pastoral work, in order to propose an inclusive pastoral approach from the perspective of gender and sexual diversity. Phenomenological research is used with a qualitative emphasis that allows us to understand the perceptions of the people who participate in the socio-pastoral phenomenon that is intended to be addressed. The results show the pastoral strategies that are inclusive in nature that, although they are not systematized, are made visible through the experiences narrated by their members. As well as the implementation of liberating hermeneutics and the need to move towards transformative pedagogical mediations that consolidate these inclusive pastoral processes.  
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A vida-morte como ritual cotidianoNeste artigo, refletimos sobre a vida-morte como ritual cotidiano frente à COVID-19. Na metodologia, delineamos uma pesquisa qualitativa, historiobiográfica, que reuniu os escritos de Edith Stein, Dulce Critelli e a narrativa de Osmair Cândido. Interessou-nos o modo como a filosofia alemã ajuda Cândido no enfretamento dos horrores da pandemia, como tirar o caixão de um filho das mãos da mãe ou enterrar doze pessoas no mesmo dia, sem ritos fúnebres. Perpendicular à parede que lhe surge, desvela-se outra, amparando os cadáveres por ele empilhados. Cândido confessa sentar-se à margem de tudo, à beira do mundo, onde até Deus termina.
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Relational Andean SpiritualitiesThe text-textile presents the interrelation of Andean ancestral wisdoms and spiritualities, which are intertwined with each other, forming a living fabric of reciprocal links that restore balance and harmony, based on relationships of mutuality and correspondence, which enables the reconstitution and interaction of the Community of Life, the Ayllu, in which various beings coexist, from which the jaq’e, the person linked to their ancestry, sustains their resistance and re-existence from the upbringing of the Good Living.
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Christians and Churches: A History of Challenges and DiversitiesThe text presents the Christianities as a broad set of diverse traditions or ecclesial movements that have been built and are still being built throughout its complex world historical evolution of more than twenty centuries. Speaking in the plural, the author argues that in the historical and social reality there are Christianities that are not only diverse, but also opposed, developed in very different cultural and ecclesial contexts. In this way, the churches must also be considered in their diversities, to recognize and respect the rich plurality manifested in polymorphous institutional structures, liturgical celebrations, and confessional expressions and magisterial.
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DIA DE SANTA SARA: IMAGEM E REPRESENTAÇÃO ESPIRITUAL E ETNO POLÍTICA DO CIGANO BRASILEIROAtravés do emprego de uma abordagem mais fluída da história oral italiana de Portelli (1988), debruço-me sobre o depoimento dos líderes Roms Mirian Stanescon (2007) e Mio Vacite (2008) para melhor compreender o surgimento e a ascensão de Santa Sara Kali no panorama cultural, espiritual e etnopolítico no Brasil contemporâneo. Através da revelação da influência de Santa Sara na construção de políticas étnicas em Brasília, Mirian oferece ricas reflexões acerca dos elos possíveis entre religiosidade e poder, enquanto Mio Vacite nos faz refletir sobre a potencial construção carismática de uma santa cigana europeia no Brasil contemporâneo, e das possíveis e necessárias negociações e transformações da ciganidade híbrida brasileira.