Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism

Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism 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

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.

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 Dawa 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 Jakeli 7. The Fires This Time by Gil Anidjar