Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
US racial formations produce a situation in which Copts are pulled simultaneously into Christian kinship and held at racial distance.
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Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained.
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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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Santa Rosalia’s welcoming of the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu refugees . . . tells us that the gods, who have their own intentions in their relationships with humans, may be practitioners of decolonial love too.
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Why do we always need more voices, traces, and archives? What does such inclusion, connection, and assimilation promise?
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Values that are seen as having a “positive” valence, such as state-building, democracy, development, and secularism are often weapons of colonial occupation.
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Bangladesh stands at a crossroads, experiencing what many call a “second liberation” after the ignominious exit of Sheikh Hasina, its long-serving…
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The past and future of India always redeems the violent exclusions in the present.
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The transition from an authority based broadly on reason to one based on revelation is one of the most consequential developments in postcolonial Nigerian history.
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What Obadare prompts us to ask is: What happens to a liberal democracy when the locus of power moves from the institutions of the state to the thrones of Pentecostal powers?
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