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Articles tagged as "Decolonial"

Decolonizing the Tabernacle

Series: Theories of Land
Elisha Chi
August 2, 2023January 27, 2024

What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?

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Black Women and the Political Performance for Environmental, Territorial, and Human Rights on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Series: Theories of Land
Kaché H. Claytor
July 25, 2023February 1, 2024

Black women have been at the forefront of authoring pathways to futurity through their care work, spiritual customs, performance cultures, aesthetic practices, philosophies, and activist movements.

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Introduction to Theories of Land

Series: Theories of Land
Dana Lloyd
July 20, 2023August 17, 2023

We need to listen to the land itself in order to theorize better, in order to live better.

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Christian and African Identities vis-à-vis Postcolonial Ecologies

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?
Cecelia Lynch
May 3, 2023May 23, 2023

Identities are deeply imbricated and our “journeys” to the discovery and rediscovery of them take effort and sacrifice, but are the only way to renewal.

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

Slavica Jakelić
November 2, 2022February 1, 2024

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.

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

Series: Reconsidering Fanon and Religion
An Yountae
April 7, 2022February 1, 2024

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.

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Is Decolonial Theory Secular?: Lessons from Frantz Fanon

Series: Reconsidering Fanon and Religion
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
January 27, 2022February 1, 2024

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.

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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.

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Decolonizing the Practices of Religion in International Relations

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Atalia Omer
July 15, 2021February 1, 2024

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.

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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.

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