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

Series: Decoloniality and Liberation Theology

Amaryah Armstrong
November 2, 2020January 27, 2024

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.

Taking a Critical Indigenous and Ethnic Studies Approach to Decolonizing Religious Studies

Series: Decoloniality and Liberation Theology

Natalie Avalos
October 14, 2020January 27, 2024

When we dehumanize Indigenous peoples at the level of epistemology, the endogenous study of Indigenous knowledge is rendered illegible. Even impossible.

On the Ethics and Perils of Engaging Critical Theory: Let’s Keep It Real

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion

Néstor Medina
October 9, 2020February 1, 2024

Decolonial and decolonizing currents are not monolithic.

Provincializing Theodicy

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Anthony Paul Smith
September 29, 2020January 25, 2024

They could not figure out why the police would be so violent in the face of non-violent protesters. In searching for a justification for this unjustifiable violence of the police, the anchors were engaged in theodicy.

The Provincializing Work, or What Remains After and Outside Philosophy of Religion

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Danube Johnson
September 8, 2020January 25, 2024

Occlusions of colonial knowledge do not merely render accounts of modern subjectivity incomplete; they render them fantasies.

Decolonizing Disenchantment

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Marika Rose
September 1, 2020October 5, 2020

As sovereignty is transposed from God to the sovereign human being, so too the ordering of the universe comes to be in the hands of the sovereign figure of Man.

Decoloniality and Philosophy of Religion

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Eleanor Craig and An Yountae
August 26, 2020February 1, 2024

Questioning the normative status of the term philosophy and attempting to reclaim and decolonize the term itself involves deconstructing the racist history haunting the archive of philosophical canons.

Sovereignty, Blackness, and the Decolonial Task: Thought Experiments

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Joseph Winters
July 23, 2020February 1, 2024

Black radical practice revises, reinterprets, and in some cases refuses the logic of sovereignty.

Theorizing Bodies in Religious Studies

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Mayra Rivera
June 30, 2020February 1, 2024

Decolonial scholarship on the body entails not just adding a new category of analysis; it requires a shift in approach.

Not Every Radical Philosophy is Decolonial

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Santiago Slabodsky
June 4, 2020February 1, 2024

If for the continental philosopher there is no possibility of thinking outside Europe, for the colonially appointed philosopher of religion there is no possibility of existence outside a totalizing Christian framework.

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