Réflexion sur le fétichisme de l’ontothéologie missionnaire : Une lecture philosophico-religieuse de christianisme sans fétiche de Fabien Eboussi Boulaga.

Abstract

This reflection is based on the fetishism of missionary ontotheology. As such, it aims to deontologize the absolutes that frame the missionary gospel, and which translate the hegemonic will of Western culture over other modes of existence, notably those of peoples on the periphery. As a corollary, therefore, it envisages the negation of the labels of fetishism and idolatry, which under the pretext of a unilaterally thought-out "rationality", have long been attached by ethno-colonial literature to non-Indo-European religious traditions, but above all to those of Black Africa. Hence the analytical acceptance of these paradigms, ideologically, politically and theologically stuck to the religious and cultural universe of the socio-cultural areas of the periphery, during the missionary expansion of Christianity. Hence, the need to go beyond these paradigms, which implies extricating Christianity from the foreign status it essentially occupies in negro-culture, insofar as it imposes itself by aiming for hegemony in our mode of existence. This extirpation makes it a religion of the participating man, and enables the liturgical mystery to be translated into concrete existence, so that what is professed is produced for Man, and for his realization as a historical being. The philosophico- religious postulate of a fetish-free Christianity defended throughout this research, therefore, sends in the idea of a religion that is not a simple superimposition, but rather, one that invents itself, and which constitutes the foundation of the imperative of historicization, which assumes that man is not a fixed existence, just as humanity is the product of particularities of existence, coexisting through various cultures, according to various modes of being man, and of referring to the absolute.