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Decoloniality

Decolonial thought unmasks the histories of violence that undergird Europe’s self-appointed status as the sole producer and purveyor of knowledge.

Featured in Decoloniality

  • Religion and Peacebuilding: A Postcolonial Perspective

    In the study of religion and peacebuilding, it is crucial to pay attention to subaltern religious consciousness and grassroots efforts in promoting peace....


  • The Promise of Decolonization for the Study of Religions

    Scholarship monitors the intrusion of theology into the discipline, while allowing colonialist assumptions to go unchecked and unthought....


  • A Decolonial Theory of Religion

    A decolonial theory of religion would involve reconsidering the Trans-Atlantic process of imperial designing as the primary site for analyzing modern religion....


  • Religious Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn

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


  • Introduction to Decoloniality and the Study of Religion

    Decolonial thought unmasks the histories of violence that undergird Europe’s self-appointed status as the sole producer and purveyor of knowledge....


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Decoloniality Articles

Decolonizing Religion: The Future of Comparative Religious Ethics

Series: Comparative Religious Ethics and Decolonial Thought
Irene Oh
May 29, 2020February 1, 2024

What might scholarship in comparative religious ethics that addresses decolonialism look like?

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Decolonial Ethics and Just War Reasoning

Series: Comparative Religious Ethics and Decolonial Thought
Rosemary Kellison
April 24, 2020February 1, 2024

Achieving a more complete understanding of the variety and pervasiveness of harm that war and warriors inflict on persons should radically change how just war thinkers view the prudence and justice of specific acts of war.

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Decolonial Politics and Religious Ethics: Dismantling Hierarchies

Series: Comparative Religious Ethics and Decolonial Thought
Shannon Dunn
April 15, 2020February 1, 2024

The integrity of religious ethics as a field depends on scholars’ ability to listen to, and take seriously, structural oppression and its relation to definitions of personhood.

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The Promise of Decolonization for the Study of Religions

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Abdulkader Tayob
March 10, 2020February 1, 2024

Scholarship monitors the intrusion of theology into the discipline, while allowing colonialist assumptions to go unchecked and unthought.

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Religious Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
March 3, 2020February 1, 2024

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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A Decolonial Theory of Religion

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
An Yountae
February 28, 2020February 1, 2024

A decolonial theory of religion would involve reconsidering the Trans-Atlantic process of imperial designing as the primary site for analyzing modern religion.

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Introduction to Decoloniality and the Study of Religion

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Garrett FitzGerald
February 24, 2020February 1, 2024

Decolonial thought unmasks the histories of violence that undergird Europe’s self-appointed status as the sole producer and purveyor of knowledge.

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Religion and Peacebuilding: A Postcolonial Perspective

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Kwok Pui Lan
October 21, 2019January 5, 2022

In the study of religion and peacebuilding, it is crucial to pay attention to subaltern religious consciousness and grassroots efforts in promoting peace.

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