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Articles tagged as "Modernity/Coloniality"

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.

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The Decolonial Turn in Liberation Theology: Between Theory and Praxis

Series: Decoloniality and Liberation Theology
Ashraf Kunnummal
December 3, 2020

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.

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On the Ethics and Perils of Engaging Critical Theory: Let’s Keep It Real

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Néstor Medina
October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Decolonial and decolonizing currents are not monolithic.

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Sovereignty, Blackness, and the Decolonial Task: Thought Experiments

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion
Joseph Winters
July 23, 2020October 5, 2020

Black radical practice revises, reinterprets, and in some cases refuses the logic of sovereignty.

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Not Every Radical Philosophy is Decolonial

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion
Santiago Slabodsky
June 4, 2020October 5, 2020

If for the continental philosopher there is no possibility of thinking outside Europe, for the colonially appointed philosopher of religion there is no possibility of existence outside a totalizing Christian framework.

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Religious Studies and/in the Decolonial Turn

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
March 3, 2020October 5, 2020

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, 2020October 5, 2020

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, 2020October 5, 2020

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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