ABSTRACT
One rather striking development since the publication of Unthinking Eurocentrism is what might be called the "mainstreaming" of indigeneity. While placing Christianity at the apex, Eurocentrism also hyphenizes Christianity with Judaism while erasing the Jewish-Muslim hyphen, thus marginalizing the third Abrahamic "religion of the book". Divino is at ease with indeterminacy, and never decides whether God exists, and never chooses between Christianity and indigenous spiritism, thus illustrating what missionaries lamented as the "inconstancy of the savage soul". Indians had souls and as a consequence enjoyed 'derechos humanos', they were later debated in the secular language of the Enlightenment, and still later in the language of decolonization, multiculturalism, and the "politics of difference". In the 1990s, some scholars constructed a kind of adjectival cordon sanitaire around multiculturalism and identity politics through prophylactic qualifiers such as "critical", "radical", and "counterhegemonic", as antidotes to potential co-optation.
