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Articles written by Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Is Decolonial Theory Secular?: Lessons from Frantz Fanon

Series: Reconsidering Fanon and Religion
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
January 27, 2022April 5, 2022

Fanon never finds “religion” purely out there: he finds “religion” always in context of colonization and global coloniality; always taking unique forms in varied contexts of catastrophe.

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Religious Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
March 3, 2020October 5, 2020

The anthropological discourse about religion was from the outset deeply implicated in the discourse of race and in projects of global expansion and socio-political control.

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