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Uyghur Oppression from a Decolonial Perspective

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China

Chiara Olivieri
March 5, 2021February 1, 2024

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, 2021February 1, 2024

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, 2021January 27, 2024

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, 2021February 1, 2024

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, 2021February 1, 2024

A decolonial approach to the Qur’an also means de-Christianizing how we understand it as a text and its relationship to Muslims.

A Conservative Decoloniality?: On the Limitations of Irish Decolonization

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Maxwell Woods
December 15, 2020February 1, 2024

Yes, not every radical philosophy is decolonial. But, as decolonized Ireland demonstrates, not every decolonial philosophy is radical.

The Decolonial Turn in Liberation Theology: Between Theory and Praxis

Series: Decoloniality and Liberation Theology

Ashraf Kunnummal
December 3, 2020February 1, 2024

The “decolonial turn” in liberation theology is part of a larger global decolonial praxis and also part of the reinvention of liberation theology in a new context.

Radical Free Speech

Series: Secularism in France

Nadia Fadil
December 2, 2020December 2, 2020

Now anti-racist views, including academic ones, are also being charged with instigating hate and polarization.

France: A Sacred Union against Terrorism or against Muslims?

Series: Secularism in France

Houria Bouteldja
November 24, 2020November 25, 2020

The main aim of the establishment becomes clear: to foreclose the emergence of other interpretations of the tragic murder. To use all means possible to prevent the meeting of the two angers (white anger and the anger of racialized populations) and the possibility of their convergence. These must be separated and partitioned.

Decolonizing Comparative Theology

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion

Girim Jung
November 16, 2020February 1, 2024

Decolonial comparative theology examines hybrid formations engaged in material struggle against neoliberalism and neocolonialism in religious studies and in the broader spiritual marketplace.

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