Antoni Aguiló

The objective of this paper is to critique the main contents of the religious ethics of work of the Opus Dei. This ethic is based on the concept of work as a divine order and the doctrine of personal sanctification through everyday professional activity. The analysis reveals the existence of an ethics of virtuousness that equates holiness and spiritual perfection with the social success and professional leadership. And it does so by adopting, on behalf of holiness, instrumental action strategies that clash with the practice and the principles of emancipatory Christianity.

Tomando como marco de referencia algunos conceptos básicos de la teoría política de Gramsci, el objetivo principal de este artículo es criticar la función hegemónica e ideológica que la democracia representativa desempeña en el contexto social e histórico de la globalización neoliberal. Lejos de avanzar hacia el ideal emancipador que representa, en la época del neoliberalismo globalizado la democracia es un instrumento de dominación al servicio de una regulación social excluyente y desigual que origina nuevas formas de autoritarismo.

El objetivo principal de este artículo es el de presentar y evaluar críticamente la existencia y el funcionamiento de una racionalidad económica neoliberal en el actual neoconservadurismo católico contemporáneo. La teología neoconservadora es portadora de una ética religiosa de mercado que detecta en la tradición religiosa judeocristiana una serie de virtudes morales y espirituales útiles para intentar justificar teológicamente la globalización neoliberal. Como estudio de caso, se toman en consideración los planteamientos político–religiosos de la teología neoliberal estadounidense, particularmente la versión del teólogo católico Michael Novak.The aim of this paper is to present and critically evaluate the existence and the functioning of neoliberal economic rationality in contemporary Catholic neoconservatism. This rationality brings in market religious ethics since it detects a series of useful moral and spiritual virtues in the Judeo-Christian religious tradition that attempt to theologically justify neoliberal globalization. This case study will consider the political–religious approaches of American neoconservative theology, particularly the version of the Catholic theologian Michael Novak.

By taking as a frame of reference the theoretical contributions of the epistemology of the South of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the main aim of this paper is to critically review some of the modern linear and homogenizing conceptions of time and history, specifically the Enlightenment philosophy of progress, the Eurocentric teleology of Hegel and the historical finalism of the early work of Fukuyama. With this purpose, this paper proposes a new approach to the relationship of past, present and future from the critical, emancipatory and postcolonial perspective of the sociology of absences and emergencies proposed by the Portuguese social theorist.