Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Taking affective investments seriously can be transformative for understanding the staying power of trends and tendencies in biblical reception.
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What does a focus on biblical assemblages together with the far-right allow us to see anew?
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Decolonial scholarship pushes the critique of the secular/modern beyond the analysis of idolatry by engaging with the question of religion and colonialism through a robust interrogation of racialization.
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I think it is a given that the multiplicity of human languages, traditions, practices, etc. diversify and enrich our ways of being in the world; this multiplicity is a good thing.
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The myth that we are disenchanted is a form of self-congratulation used to marginalize those who do not fit the secular paradigm
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Is it possible to decolonize secularity and extract it from its nest in racialized modern and colonial formations?
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By shifting our perspective, we can uncover pathways for more equitable, locally driven peace initiatives that challenge, rather than reinforce, colonial frameworks.
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How does one get from religion-based peacebuilding practices that maintain existent orders of domination to peacebuilding practices that challenge and potentially transcend orders of domination?
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Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.
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Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding asks the peacebuilding industry to look inward about the assumptions it makes about religion and its broader location within the ideological contours that shape modernity.
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