Co-opting indigenous cosmology makes colonial rule sacred and rebellion sacrilegious

Evidence

In other words, arrange it so that the white man, and particularly the Belgian, and even more particularly Albert or Leopold, takes his place at the head of the hierarchy of Bantu life forces, and you have done the trick. You will have brought this miracle to pass: the Bantu god will take responsibility for the Belgian colonialist order, and any Bantu who dares to raise his hand against it will be guilty of sacrilege. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 147

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core mechanism of ideological interpellation that Foucault/grammar-of-power readings will echo; connects to Gramscian hegemony via consent manufactured through the colonized’s own belief system. — connects to: Enlightenment environmentalism furnished a rationale for colonial hierarchy — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 232; Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421; Colonial dream-analysis reads native fear of rebellion as a mandate to stay submissive (+5 more)
• DEFINE: A vivid instance of how colonial ideology operates: absorbing the colonized’s worldview to make the colonial order appear divinely sanctioned.

Related

• A settler-colonial regime whose founding narrative is sacred cannot secularize without renouncing that narrative (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial psychology characterized rebellion as the colonized sacrificing themselves to appease their gods (similarity 0.83)
• Monotheistic sacred narratives ground colonial sovereignty and identity against the Other. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial psychology shifts blame for colonial violence onto the colonized (similarity 0.79)
• Bantu Philosophy challenged the colonial paternalism underpinning mission methods (similarity 0.78)
• Colonizers use the colonized’s own spirituality to deny them material claims (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Monotheistic sacred narratives ground colonial sovereignty and identity against the Other. #expands (0.80) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 99
• Colonial dream-analysis reads native fear of rebellion as a mandate to stay submissive #exemplifies (0.75)
• Colonial psychology characterized rebellion as the colonized sacrificing themselves to appease their gods #exemplifies (0.70) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 163