Abstract

How do we pray in a world filled with colonialities of religious and political forms of dominance, of religious institutions serving dominating powers? Where do we pray from? What language shall we use, especially when our very religious language traps us into the ontology of empire, capitalism, its thinking, and neoliberal pragmatics? The only way to start praying is to borrow the prayers of those in the margins, of other religions, and those who are resisting under the belly by the empire/colonial powers. Only by listening to others and to the earth we can pray again. For now, our prayer is way too clogged within our own systems of spirituality and only affirms coloniality instead of dismantling it. How can we pray?