{"product_id":"the-coloniality-of-the-secular-9781478020127","title":"The Coloniality of the Secular","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“How are religious sensibilities mobilized in decolonial thought, a tradition that rebels against the legacy of Christianity in shaping colonial ideologies? Challenging the widespread assumption of decolonial thought as ‘secular,’ \u003ci\u003eThe Coloniality of the Secular\u003c\/i\u003e offers an attentive and insightful reading of some of its most celebrated theorists, surfacing their gestures toward a notion of the sacred. This is an indispensable contribution to theorizing religion in the Americas and reconceiving decolonial thought and practice!” -- Mayra Rivera, author of * Poetics of the Flesh *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Coloniality of the Secular\u003c\/i\u003e takes on, with critical precision and erudition, the thorny concepts of religion and secularism as both have been mediated by the colonizing and hegemonic yoke of Christianity and its mirror images. Drawing upon a rich array of Africana and decolonial scholarship to make his case, An Yountae presents a provocative decolonial analysis and theory in which creolizing the sacred shines through, transcending the colonial religion\/secular divide. A valuable contribution not only to decolonial thought but also to critical modernity studies, religious studies, race studies, and global southern thought.” -- Lewis R. Gordon, author of * Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. A Decolonial Theory of Religion  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Genealogies\u003cbr\u003e 1. Modernity\/Coloniality\/Secularity: The Cartography of Struggle  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. Crisis and Revolutionary Praxis: Philosophy and Theology of Liberation  57\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Poetics\u003cbr\u003e 3. Phenomenology of the Political: Fanon’s Religion  97\u003cbr\u003e 4. Phenomenology of Race: Poetics of Blackness  113\u003cbr\u003e 5. Poetics of World-Making: Creolizing the Sacred, Becoming Archipelago  139\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  177\u003cbr\u003e Notes  181\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  205\u003cbr\u003e Index  223","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409013023063,"sku":"9781478020127","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020127.jpg?v=1730505089","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-coloniality-of-the-secular-9781478020127","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}