Beyond Man reimagines the meaning and potential of a philosophy of religion that better attends to the inextricable links among religion, racism, and colonialism. An Yountae, Eleanor Craig, and the contributors reckon with the colonial and racial implications of the field's history by staging a conversation with Black, Indigenous, and decolonial studies. In their introduction, An and Craig point out that European-descended Christianity has historically defined itself by its relation to the other while paradoxically claiming to represent and speak to humanity in its totality. The topics include secularism, the Eucharist's relation to Blackness, and sixteenth-century Brazilian cannibalism rituals as well as an analysis of how Mircea Eliade's conception of the sacred underwrites settler colonial projects and imaginaries. Throughout, the contributors also highlight the theorizing of Afro-Caribbean thinkers such as Sylvia Wynter, C. L. R. James, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire whose work disrupts the normative Western categories of religion and philosophy.
Contributors. An Yountae, Ellen Armour, J. Kameron Carter, Eleanor Craig, Amy Hollywood, Vincent Lloyd, Filipe Maia, Mayra Rivera, Devin Singh, Joseph R. Winters
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Eleanor Craig & An Yountae: Challenging Modernity/Coloniality in philosophy of Religion
- Chapter One. Devin Singh: Decolonial Options for a Fragile Secular
- Chapter Two. Mayra Rivera: Embodied Counterpoetics: Sylvia Wynter on Religion and Race
- Chapter Three. Eleanor Craig: We Have Never Been Human/e: The Laws of Burgos and the Philosophy of Coloniality in the Americas
- Chapter Four. Vincent Lloyd: The Puritan Atheism of C. L. R. James
- Chapter Five. Ellen Armour: Decolonizing Spectatorship: Photography, Theology, and New Media
- Chapter Six. J. Kameron Carter: The Excremental Sacred: A Paraliturgy
- Chapter Seven. An Yountae: On Violence and Redemption: Fanon and Colonial Theodicy
- Chapter Eight. Filipe Maiaalter-Carnation: Notes on Cannibalism and Coloniality in the Brazilian Context
- Chapter Nine. Joseph R. Winters: The Sacred Gone Astray: Eliade, Fanon, Wynter, and the Terror of Colonial Settlement
- Chapter Ten. Amy Hollywood: Response—On Impassioned Claims: The Possibility of Doing philosophy of Religion Otherwise
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