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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.

Religion, Humanitarianism, and Decolonization

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God

Emma Tomalin
July 27, 2021

There is a need to broaden approaches to the religion-development nexus and to develop a new conceptual perspective that moves beyond prioritizing the agenda of secular global development institutions and instead critically examines their rhetoric and practices.

Decolonizing the Practices of Religion in International Relations

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God

Atalia Omer
July 15, 2021

Lynch shows that the postsecular discovery of religion does not constitute a departure from the symbiosis of Christianity and secular modernity, but rather represents its perpetuation through other idioms and technologies.

Buddhist Studies Has a Whiteness Problem

Constance Kassor
March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

Buddhist studies, on the whole, has not acknowledged, let alone addressed, issues of colonization, white supremacy, and the erasure of Asian people and cultures within the field.

Uyghur Oppression from a Decolonial Perspective

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China

Chiara Olivieri
March 5, 2021

Since post-colonial times have not (yet) come for the Uyghurs, a decolonial approach to the Uyghur issue must start by assuming the colonial nature of the relations between the Chinese nation-state and both the Uyghurs and their homeland.

Decolonial Islamic Studies and Defending Muḥammad in Modernity

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity

Sohaira Siddiqui
March 4, 2021

With remarkable subtlety, Tareen impresses upon the reader the distinction between the ability of colonial modernity to affect the nature of intellectual debates and the ability of colonial modernity to affect the content of those debates.

Decolonizing the Study of South Asian Islam: Reflections on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity

Waris Mazhari
February 25, 2021February 25, 2021

Why must we employ Western frameworks and categories of analysis like political theology to examine indigenous theological discourses and debates?

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.

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