The Coloniality of the Secular: Race, Religion, and Poetics of World-Making - Hardcover

An, Yountae

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1478020121 ISBN 13: 9781478020127

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2024

Synopsis

In The Coloniality of the Secular, An Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas. Drawing on the work of Édouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Sylvia Wynter, and Enrique Dussel, An maps the intersections of revolutionary non-Western thought with religious ideas to show how decoloniality redefines the sacred as an integral part of its liberation vision. He examines these thinkers’ rejection of colonial religions and interrogates the narrow conception of religion that confines it within colonial power structures. An explores decoloniality’s conception of the sacred in relation to revolutionary violence, gender, creolization, and racial phenomenology, demonstrating its potential for reshaping religious paradigms. Pointing out that the secular has been pivotal to regulating racial hierarchies under colonialism, he advocates for a broader understanding of religion that captures the fundamental ideas that drive decolonial thinking. By examining how decolonial theory incorporates the sacred into its vision of liberation, An invites readers to rethink the transformative power of decoloniality and religion to build a hopeful future.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478020121
• ISBN 13: 9781478020127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240