Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: I n Can the Church Be Decolonized?Holy Cross Education in Bangladesh, Md Shaikh Farid, and Liz Jackson under take a crit i cal inspec tion of the Congregation of Holy Cross's (CSC) edu ca tional mis sion in Bangladesh.Their fore most argu ments are that despite trans for ma tive global and regional changes, com bin ing the decol o ni za tion of Bangladesh and mod i fi ca tions within the Cath o lic Church, the CSC's edu ca tional per for mance con tin ues to bear traces of its colo nial inher i tance.Using a post-colo nial lens, the writ ers cross-exam ine the pos si bil ity of decolonizing edu ca tion against a back ground in which the Cath o lic Church has been equally a nego ti a tor of cul tural con ver sa tion and a trans porter of Western heg e monic mor als.Intended for intel lec tu als in the fields of edu ca tion, reli gious stud ies, and post-colo nial the ory, the study uses archi val research and oral his tory inter views with CSC per son nel in Bangladesh and the United States to pur sue its inves ti ga tion.
Author: S. M. Tanveer Ahmed
Institution: Washington State University
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411264597