An The Coloniality of the Secular

Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2709-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas, showing how decolonial thought incorporates religion into its vision of liberation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

An, Yountae

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. A Decolonial Theory of Religion 1
Part I. Genealogies
1. Modernity/Coloniality/Secularity: The Cartography of Struggle 25
2. Crisis and Revolutionary Praxis: Philosophy and Theology of Liberation 57
Part II. Poetics
3. Phenomenology of the Political: Fanon’s Religion 97
4. Phenomenology of Race: Poetics of Blackness 113
5. Poetics of World-Making: Creolizing the Sacred, Becoming Archipelago 139
Conclusion 177
Notes 181
Bibliography 205
Index 223

Über Autor(innen)

An Yountae is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge. He is coeditor of Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion, also published by Duke University Press, and author of The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins.