Decolonizing Knowledges, Undisciplining Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3240487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nina Hoel (University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 374 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel16030374 |
| OpenAlex | W4408504638 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
The article engages in the undisciplining of the study of religion and proposes two central concepts/approaches for how to do so: the pluriverse and materiality. But what is undisciplining? And is it needed? To frame the undisciplining of the study of religion and render visible how I conceive of it as a needed practice, the article discusses the relationship between knowledge, materiality, power, and transformation. This relationship is concretized by prioritizing critical decolonial perspectives from the South African context. Here, I center materiality and the material effects of colonial discourse and epistemology as critical entry points. I also highlight the importance of embodied approaches to knowledge, illustrated through decolonial feminist engagements with post-qualitative methodologies. Informed by these critical insights, I unpack the concept of the pluriverse and highlight its epistemic and methodological relevance for the undisciplining of the study of religion. (Re-)turning to materiality, I foreground materiality as a creative and critical knowledge framework and argue for the varying ways it may function for rethinking and undisciplining the study of religion
Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Philosophy · Religious studies · Theological Perspectives and Practices
Foreword. On Pluriversality and Multipolarity
Authentic Fakes
Wild Pedagogies
Representation and Black Womanhood
Decolonizing the Study of Religion
Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities
Embroidered Voices
Meandering as learning
Lalela uLwandle (Listen to the Sea)
Decolonizing the university
Using cotton, needles and threads to break the women's silence
Bodies of Water
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
Race and Materiality in African Religious Contexts
An octo-aesthetic figuration for learning in times of crisis
Ethical Waters
Religious history as religious studies
Wild Swimming Methodologies for Decolonial Feminist Justice-to-Come Scholarship
Studying religion in the pluriversity
A phenomenology of whiteness
Sacred waste
The Invention of World Religions
Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Thinking methodologies with textiles, thinking textiles as methodologies in the context of transitional justice
On the Coloniality of Being
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |