Studying religion in the pluriversity: decolonial perspectives

Taking up the concept of the pluriversity as developed by mostly South American thinkers, this essay shares some thoughts about what the study of religion/s might look like if we seriously engage with questions of decolonisation. Building on the critique of the dominant Western, Eurocentric, colonia...

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Subtitles:Futures
主要作者: Van Klinken, A. S. 1982- (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Routledge [2020]
In: Religion
Year: 2020, 卷: 50, 發布: 1, Pages: 148-155
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B 宗教學 / 多元社會
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
Further subjects:B Decolonisation
B study of religions
B Pluriversity
B Postcoloniality
B epistemologies of the South
在線閱讀: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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總結:Taking up the concept of the pluriversity as developed by mostly South American thinkers, this essay shares some thoughts about what the study of religion/s might look like if we seriously engage with questions of decolonisation. Building on the critique of the dominant Western, Eurocentric, colonialist and racialised models of thought that have historically shaped the field, I make a constructive proposal for an approach to the study of religion/s that centres around three Ps: a commitment to Pluriversality, an acknowledgment of Partiality, and a commitment to Participatory work. I illustrate this with some specific examples from studying religion in contemporary African contexts.
ISSN:1096-1151
Contains:Enthalten in: Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2019.1681108