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On the Advantage of Not Fitting In: Religious-National Identities as Border-Living

Slavica Jakelić
November 2, 2022November 4, 2022

Only when the Balkans are considered as succumbing to neither Northern nor Southern theoretical or praxis-oriented frameworks, can we ensure that all ways of being and living locally are truly listened to.

The Myth of the Secular Revolutionary: On Fanon’s Religion

Series: Reconsidering Fanon and Religion

An Yountae
April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

Fanon’s critique of religion winds up being a powerful critique of the secular. Contrarily, Fanon seeks refuge in the secular in order to resignify the human but he ends up repurposing religion along the way.

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.

They Say “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” Look, We Are All over Palestine

Series: Decoloniality in Practice

Halah Abdelhadi
February 3, 2021

Tackling the homophobic deployment of religion requires using theological tools that expand interpretations of religious meanings and orients them to the suffering of queer communities.

Empire and Race in Comparative Religious Ethics

Series: Comparative Religious Ethics and Decolonial Thought

Nicholas Andersen
January 22, 2021January 22, 2021

Comparativists ought to ask how imperial and racial formations have shaped the settings within which peoples have acted and thought, regarding them not as wholly determinative but as nevertheless integral components of peoples’ ethical lives.

Towards a Decolonial Approach to the Qur’an

Asad Dandia
January 15, 2021January 15, 2021

A decolonial approach to the Qur’an also means de-Christianizing how we understand it as a text and its relationship to Muslims.

A Conservative Decoloniality?: On the Limitations of Irish Decolonization

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Maxwell Woods
December 15, 2020

Yes, not every radical philosophy is decolonial. But, as decolonized Ireland demonstrates, not every decolonial philosophy is radical.

The Decolonial Turn in Liberation Theology: Between Theory and Praxis

Series: Decoloniality and Liberation Theology

Ashraf Kunnummal
December 3, 2020

The “decolonial turn” in liberation theology is part of a larger global decolonial praxis and also part of the reinvention of liberation theology in a new context.

Decolonizing Comparative Theology

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion

Girim Jung
November 16, 2020

Decolonial comparative theology examines hybrid formations engaged in material struggle against neoliberalism and neocolonialism in religious studies and in the broader spiritual marketplace.

Heretical Histories of Liberation: Black Liberation Theology, Historical Materialism, and the Making of Black Freedom

Series: Decoloniality and Liberation Theology

Amaryah Armstrong
November 2, 2020November 9, 2020

Refusing to excise the theological from black radical thought would go a long way toward resolving the anxiety around religion, spirituality, and the mythic in historical materialist circles.

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