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Roger Williams entre os Narragansetts: Puritanismo e reconhecimento do Outro na colonização da Nova Inglaterra

2015; Escola Superior de Teologia, Instituto Ecumênico de Pós-Graduação, Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisa do Protestantismo; Volume: 38; Linguagem: Inglês

10.22351/nepp.v38i0.2523

1678-6408

Adriel Moreira Barbosa,

Religion and Society in Latin America

This paper presents partial results of our master degree's research about Roger Williams, an important person in the colonization of the United States during the seventeenth century. Roger Williams, not well-known and researched in Brazil, was renowned for fighting for independent thinking and the separation of the church and state. The remembrance of his legacy in this paper has the goal to analyze his relationship with the natives of the Narragansett tribe and his fight for their rights, as well as to identify William's critics to the Puritan system, which refused to respect the natives' differences. From the theoretical and methodological perspective of the Philosophy of Liberation by Enrique Dussel, we identified Williams' thoughts as critical and anticolonial. The importance of studying Williams' experiences for Latin America is justified for the necessity and urgency of identifying identical hermeneutical locus that would promote the ideals of human dignity and tolerance of differences.