Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Atalia Omer is professor of religion, conflict, and peace studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding and co-editor of Religion, Populism, and Modernity.
Joshua Lupo is the assistant director of the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the co-editor of Religion, Populism, and Modernity.
Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism
<p>"<em>Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism</em> contains a fine set of essays that together raise critical questions about what scholars are doing when we attempt to 'decolonize' a field of study and, relatedly, our notions of political agency and community. These scholars collectively argue that decolonizing is necessary, difficult, and brave work." —Shannon F. Dunn, professor and chair of the Religious Studies Department, Gonzaga University</p>
Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism examines the tenacious, lingering impact of European colonial ideology on religion and politics around the world.
Even though the formal structures of colonialism have crumbled, with a few notable exceptions, European colonial ideology continues to operate across the globe, resulting in limited, nationalistic conceptualizations of religion and politics. Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism shows convincingly that not only has colonialism had a devastating impact on the colonized, but its reach has turned inward to erode the colonizer's own social and political systems.
By examining the colonial violence constitutive of liberal political ideology, the continued oppression of Muslims in Europe in the name of security, and the way neoliberal economics bends religious hermeneutics to its will, the authors of Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism call attention to the threats that face our world today. They also point to potential sites of hope—for example, the work of a priest in the Balkans who seeks to build solidarity across religious differences; groups in Africa who are constructing decolonial religious imaginaries; and the Islamo-futurism of Dune, which haltingly imagines a form of modernity beyond the West.
Contributors: Atalia Omer, Joshua Lupo, Santiago Slabodsky, Nadia Fadil, S. Sayyid, Luca Mavelli, Edmund Frettingham, Cecelia Lynch, Slavica Jakelić, and Gil Anidjar
"Introduction to Religion, Modernity, and Colonialism" by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo
Part 1. Religion, Politics, and Colonial Afterlives, or the Old is not Dying
1. "Seeing the Old in the New: The Coloniality of the Liberal-Populist Marriage" by Santiago Slabodsky
2. "Deradicalization as a Fetish: The Threat of Da'wa and the Regulation of the Real" by Nadia Fadil
3. "Afrofuturism, Islamofuturism, and Post-Western Modernity" by S. Sayyid
4. "The Neoliberal Rationality of Secularism" by Luca Mavelli and Edmund Frettingham,
Part 2. Challenging Colonial Paradigms: Nationalisms and Humanitarianism at the Edges of Modernity
5. "Modern Epistemological Webs: The Complex Legacies of Missionizing and Humanitarianism for Decolonizing Religion in Africa" by Cecelia Lynch
6. "Linking Identity and Solidarity: A Reflection from the Periphery" by Slavica Jakelić
7. "The Fires This Time" by Gil Anidjar
<p>"<em>Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism</em> contains a fine set of essays that together raise critical questions about what scholars are doing when we attempt to 'decolonize' a field of study and, relatedly, our notions of political agency and community. These scholars collectively argue that decolonizing is necessary, difficult, and brave work." —Shannon F. Dunn, professor and chair of the Religious Studies Department, Gonzaga University</p>
Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism examines the tenacious, lingering impact of European colonial ideology on religion and politics around the world.
Even though the formal structures of colonialism have crumbled, with a few notable exceptions, European colonial ideology continues to operate across the globe, resulting in limited, nationalistic conceptualizations of religion and politics. Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism shows convincingly that not only has colonialism had a devastating impact on the colonized, but its reach has turned inward to erode the colonizer's own social and political systems.
By examining the colonial violence constitutive of liberal political ideology, the continued oppression of Muslims in Europe in the name of security, and the way neoliberal economics bends religious hermeneutics to its will, the authors of Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism call attention to the threats that face our world today. They also point to potential sites of hope—for example, the work of a priest in the Balkans who seeks to build solidarity across religious differences; groups in Africa who are constructing decolonial religious imaginaries; and the Islamo-futurism of Dune, which haltingly imagines a form of modernity beyond the West.
Contributors: Atalia Omer, Joshua Lupo, Santiago Slabodsky, Nadia Fadil, S. Sayyid, Luca Mavelli, Edmund Frettingham, Cecelia Lynch, Slavica Jakelić, and Gil Anidjar
"Introduction to Religion, Modernity, and Colonialism" by Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo
Part 1. Religion, Politics, and Colonial Afterlives, or the Old is not Dying
1. "Seeing the Old in the New: The Coloniality of the Liberal-Populist Marriage" by Santiago Slabodsky
2. "Deradicalization as a Fetish: The Threat of Da'wa and the Regulation of the Real" by Nadia Fadil
3. "Afrofuturism, Islamofuturism, and Post-Western Modernity" by S. Sayyid
4. "The Neoliberal Rationality of Secularism" by Luca Mavelli and Edmund Frettingham,
Part 2. Challenging Colonial Paradigms: Nationalisms and Humanitarianism at the Edges of Modernity
5. "Modern Epistemological Webs: The Complex Legacies of Missionizing and Humanitarianism for Decolonizing Religion in Africa" by Cecelia Lynch
6. "Linking Identity and Solidarity: A Reflection from the Periphery" by Slavica Jakelić
7. "The Fires This Time" by Gil Anidjar
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Atalia Omer is professor of religion, conflict, and peace studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding and co-editor of Religion, Populism, and Modernity.
Joshua Lupo is the assistant director of the Contending Modernities research initiative at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the co-editor of Religion, Populism, and Modernity.