van Klinken, A orcid.org/0000-0003-2011-5537 (2020) Studying religion in the pluriversity: decolonial perspectives. Religion, 50 (1). pp. 148-155. ISSN 0048-721X
Abstract
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.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Religion. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | pluriversity; decolonial; postcolonial; religion; Africa; epistemology; study of religions |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > Theology and Religious Studies (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number American Academy of Religion Adriaan Van Klinken |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2019 10:58 |
Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2021 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0048721X.2019.1681108 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:152136 |