ABSTRACT
A group of researchers from five continents are working on producing a twelve volume series on the Second Vatican Council and its global processes of reception. As debates emerge surrounding issues of subalternity, colonialism, decolonialism, and the geopolitics of knowledge, a new set of questions has been raised on the significance of such a project that places Vatican II at the center of international efforts. This paper pays special attention to the difficulties raised by these questions and to interpretations of the Council in favour of interculturality. Further consideration will be given to the role of Vatican II in the historical development of the continent over the course of the past decades as well as to the Council’s acquiescence to many demands of decolonization. Indeed, in both Latin America and the Caribbean, the Council took up discourses of liberation and emancipation.
KEYWORDS
Council; Epistemological Decolonization; Geopolitics of Knowledge