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The coloniality of the secular : race, religion, and poetics of world-making / An Yountae.

Author/creator An Yountae author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
Descriptionviii, 231 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents A Decolonial Theory of Religion -- Modernity/Coloniality/Secularity: The Cartography of Struggle -- Crisis and Revolutionary Praxis: Philosophy and Theology of Liberation -- Phenomenology of the Political: Fanon's Religion -- Phenomenology of Race: Poetics of Blackness -- Poetics of World Making: Creolizing the Sacred, Becoming Archipelago.
Abstract "The Coloniality of the Secular explores how decolonial theory can open ways to theorize religion in the Americas. An Yountae maps how revolutionary non-Western thought is shot through with religious ideas, as exemplified by key decolonial figures including Edouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, and Gloria Anzaldua. By revisiting the corpus of decolonial literature with an eye towards religion, Yountae reveals how decoloniality reconstitutes the sacred as part of its vision of liberation. This incisive reading of decoloniality elucidates how revolutionary thinkers' refusal of colonial religions opens up the possibility for the remaking of religion itself. Across the book's five chapters, Yountae explores decoloniality's conception of the sacred in relationship to revolutionary violence, gender, creolization, and racial phenomenology. By expanding our understanding of decoloniality's investments in the spirit, An Yountae shows how decoloniality provides a radically different epistemology and horizon for the future"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: An Yountae Coloniality of the secular Durham : Duke University Press, 2024 9781478027096
LCCN 2023016231
ISBN9781478025108
ISBN1478025107
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ISBN1478020121
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