Beyond Man

An Yountae is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Northridge, and author of The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins.Eleanor Craig is Program Director and Lecturer, Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights, Harvard University.

• Acknowledgments  viiIntroduction: Challenging Modernity/Coloniality in Philosophy of Religion / Eleanor Craig and An Yountae  11. Decolonial Options for a Fragile Secular / Devin Singh  322. Embodied Counterpoetics: Syliva Wynter on Religion and Race / Mayra Rivera  573. We Have Never Been Human/e: The Laws of Burgos and the Philosophy of Coloniality in the Americas / Eleanor Craig  864. The Puritan Atheism of C.L.R. James / Vincent Lloyd  1085. Decolonizing Spectatorship: Photography, Theology, and New Media / Ellen Armour  1276. The Excremental Sacred: A Paraliturgy / J. Kameron Carter  1517. On Violence and Redemption: Fanon and Colonial Theodicy / An Yountae  2048. Alter-Carnation: Notes on Cannibalism and Coloniality in the Brazilian Context / Filipe Maia  2269. The Sacred Gone Astray: Eliade, Fanon, Wynter, and the Terror of Colonial Settlement /Joseph R. Winters  24510. Response-On Impassioned Claims: The Possibility of Doing Philosophy of Religion Otherwise / Amy Hollywood  269Contributors  287Index  291

“At this historical moment, along an expansive geography marked by various forms of disregard playing out long-standing modes of violence, this volume goes a long way in helping expose and decipher key structures of power. In the process and taken as a whole, it provides an intriguing depiction of what philosophy of religion has entailed with respect to these structures, and what it can mean and accomplish when cultural assumptions around categories such as the human are interrogated. I highly recommend it.” - Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University “Beyond Man is an important, unique work. It transforms philosophy of religion by insisting that the field be constitutively informed by religious studies, critical race theories, and decolonial, postcolonial, and Black studies. If our discipline has any future at all, this is it.” - Mary-Jane Rubenstein, author of (Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters)